 | Aubrey Lackington Moore - 1890 - 426 pages
...quotation from the " Essay," which draws the line between man and brute at the power of abstracting — " the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect...which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to." In the next chapter we have ideas classified as follows : — " The word ' Idea ' I will use in... | |
 | Conwy Lloyd Morgan - 1891 - 542 pages
...they are unable to do so. I am, therefore, prepared to say, with John Locke, that this abstraction "is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to." I am anxious, however, not to exaggerate my divergence, more apparent, I believe, than real, from... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1891 - 734 pages
...that language was from the beginning conceptual, and conf1rm the well-known statement of Locke, that 'the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.'... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1891 - 396 pages
...that language was from the beginning conceptual, and confirm the well-known statement of Locke, that " the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to."... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1891 - 636 pages
...I may be positive in,' he writes, ' that the power of abstracting is not at all in brutes, and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes. For it is evident we observe no footsteps in these of making use of general... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1897 - 466 pages
...difference in point of understanding betwixt man and beast. " The having of general ideas," saith he, " is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man...the faculties of brutes do by no means attain unto. For, it is evident we observe no foot-steps in them of making use of general signs for universal ideas;... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 486 pages
...this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect...which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to." If Locke is right in considering the having general ideas as the distinguishing feature between... | |
 | Carl Vernon Tower - 1899 - 82 pages
...coupled with the passage immediately following the one we have just quoted, in which it is said that "the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brute," induce Berkeley to think that the having of abstract ideas means the possession of a faculty... | |
 | 1900 - 470 pages
...this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect...which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to." If Locke is right in considering the having general ideas as the distinguishing feature between... | |
 | 1917 - 714 pages
...the active conceptual reason. ' The having of general ideas ', says Locke in a wellknown passage, ' is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man...which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.' * This is just the kind of passage which the average evolutionist with a negative bias in his... | |
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For it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them, of making use of general signs for universal ideas; from which we have reason to imagine, that they have not the faculty of abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use of words, or any... 
