... neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot exist ; an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are... An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 163by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
| JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - 786 pages
...[rightangled] ; neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalen[e]; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot...ideas, and makes all the haste to them it can, for the conveniency of communication and enlargement of Knowledge; to both which it is naturally very much... | |
| John Locke - 1853 - 588 pages
...oblique, nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot...ideas, and makes all the haste to them it can, for the conveniency of communication and enlargement of knowledge ; to both which it is naturally very much... | |
| John Locke, James Augustus St. John - Language and languages - 1854 - 576 pages
...nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at once.* In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot...ideas, and makes all the haste to them it can, for the conveniency of communication and enlargement of knowledge, to both which it is naturally very much... | |
| John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot exist ; an idea wherein some parts of severa! different and inconsistent ideas are put together. It is true, the mind, in this imperfect... | |
| Thomas Ebenezer Webb - Idea (Philosophy) - 1857 - 214 pages
...oblique, nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist...different and inconsistent Ideas are put together" (Iv. vii. 9). On this latter passage, Berkeley in the Introduction to his Principles of Human Knowledge... | |
| Thomas Ebenezer Webb - Idea (Philosophy) - 1857 - 218 pages
...exist" (rr. vii. 9). It is not the Idea-Image attributed to the Conceptualist; for he tells us it is " an Idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent Ideas are put together" (ibid.). It is not the Arbitrary Abstraction attributed to the Nominalist ; for though he holds it... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - Logic - 1859 - 772 pages
...Logua (pars U. o. vi. « 16. Optra, p 236. e«ajr v., chap. ii. and vl. — ED. — ED.], and otnen. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot...of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together."1 This doctrine waa, however, too palpably absurd to obtain any advocates ; and conceptualism,... | |
| Henry Longueville Mansel - Consciousness - 1860 - 446 pages
...process by which it is formed. According to Locke,"f- the general idea of a triangle is an imperfect idea, " wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together." As limited to no particular kind of triangle, but including all, it must be " neither oblique nor rectangular,... | |
| Henry Longueville Mansel - Consciousness - 1860 - 428 pages
...process by which it is formed. According to Locke,'t the general idea of a triangle is an imperfect idea, " wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together." As limited to no particular kind of triangle, but including all, it must be " neither oblique nor rectangular,... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1861 - 584 pages
...oblique or rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot...different and inconsistent ideas are put together." This doctrine was, however, too palpably absurd to obtain any advocates ; and Conceptualism, could... | |
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