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... simply offers an explanation of the five words , Genus , Species , Differentia , Property , Accident . This Appendix , on the first reading of the book , may be substituted by the student for Pt . II . ch . v . , but should be combined ...
... simply offers an explanation of the five words , Genus , Species , Differentia , Property , Accident . This Appendix , on the first reading of the book , may be substituted by the student for Pt . II . ch . v . , but should be combined ...
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... simply represents to the mind absent objects of perception as they have already been perceived , the latter combines phenomena or portions of phenomena , whether absent or present , into a new whole . Thus the notions of a particular ...
... simply represents to the mind absent objects of perception as they have already been perceived , the latter combines phenomena or portions of phenomena , whether absent or present , into a new whole . Thus the notions of a particular ...
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... simply an individual object divested of all its peculiar attributes , and regarded as possessing only those attributes which it has in common with all the other objects which are designated * by the same name . But it is indifferent on ...
... simply an individual object divested of all its peculiar attributes , and regarded as possessing only those attributes which it has in common with all the other objects which are designated * by the same name . But it is indifferent on ...
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... simply representative of the group . And hence it is that a common name simultaneously suggests to the mind a group of individual objects and a bundle of attributes characteristic of that group . For a further discussion of this subject ...
... simply representative of the group . And hence it is that a common name simultaneously suggests to the mind a group of individual objects and a bundle of attributes characteristic of that group . For a further discussion of this subject ...
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... simply to the objects , and ' connotation ' simply to the attributes which are signified by a term . This is a broad and exceedingly convenient distinction , and , notwith- standing the apparent paradox involved in it , namely , that ...
... simply to the objects , and ' connotation ' simply to the attributes which are signified by a term . This is a broad and exceedingly convenient distinction , and , notwith- standing the apparent paradox involved in it , namely , that ...
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Page 179 - Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 58 - All definitions are of names, and of names only; but, in some definitions, it is clearly apparent, that nothing is intended except to explain the meaning of the word; while in others, besides explaining the meaning of the word, it is intended to be implied that there exists a thing, corresponding to the word.
Page 154 - A servant who was roasting a stork for his master, was prevailed upon by his sweetheart to cut off a leg for her to eat. When the bird came upon table, the master desired to know what was become of the other leg. The man answered, that storks had never more than one leg.
Page 178 - Wood, stones, fire, water, flesh, iron, and the like things, which I name and discourse of, are things that I know. And I should not have known them, but that I perceived them by my senses; and things perceived by the senses are immediately perceived; and things immediately perceived are ideas; and ideas cannot exist without the mind; their existence therefore consists in being perceived; when therefore they are actually perceived, there can be no doubt of their existence.
Page 148 - to allow every man an unbounded freedom of speech must always be, on the whole, advantageous to the State; for it is highly conducive to the interests of the Community, that each individual should enjoy a liberty perfectly unlimited, of expressing his sentiments.
Page 154 - ... determined to strike his servant dumb before he punished him, took him next day into the fields where they saw storks, standing each on one leg, as storks do. The servant turned triumphantly to his master, on which the latter shouted and the birds put down their other legs and flew away. 'Ah, sir...
Page 168 - The general stock of any country or society is the same with that of all its inhabitants or members, and therefore naturally divides itself into the same three portions, each of which has a distinct function or office. The...
Page 172 - For those who are bent on cultivating their minds by diligent study, the incitement of academical honours is unnecessary; and it is ineffectual, for the idle, and such as are indifferent to mental improvement: therefore the incitement of academical honours is either unnecessary or ineffectual.
Page 173 - In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
Page 180 - It is, indeed, an elaborate and correct analysis. But it is an analysis of that which we are all doing from morning to night, and which we continue to do even in our dreams.