 For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle (which is yet none of the most abstract, comprehensive, and difficult); for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon,...  The North American Review - Seite 463herausgegeben von - 1871Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Noah Porter - 1890 - 600 Seiten
...accident." Locke, on the other hand, who was a Conccptualist, says in his Essay (B. IV. c. vii..g 9), "Does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle, [which is yet none of the most abstract, comprehensive, and difficult,] for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle,... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1890 - 610 Seiten
...accident." Lot'ke, on the other hand, who was a Conceptualiet, says in his Eisay (B. IV. c. vii..§ 9), "Does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triunglt, [which is yet none of the most abstract, comprehensive, and difficult,] for it must be neither... | |
 | John Locke - 1892 - 566 Seiten
...they seem so to grown men, it is only because by constant and familiar use they are made SO. For when we nicely reflect upon them, we shall find that general...to form the general idea of a triangle, (which is yet none of the most abstract, comprehensive, and difficult,) for it must be neither oblique nor rectangiC,... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - 1892 - 882 Seiten
...same subject about two hundred years old. In treating of the formation of general ideas Locke says, " For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle (which is yet none of the most abstract, comprehensive, or difficult) ? for it must neither be oblique uor rectangle,... | |
 | 1893 - 646 Seiten
...ein: „that general ideas . . . carry difficulty mth them and do not so easily o ff er themselves os we are apt to imagine. For example, does it not require...some pains and skill to form the general idea of a trianale . . . fw it must le neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, eqiiierural, nor sealenon;... | |
 | John Locke - 1894 - 692 Seiten
...fictions and contrivances of the mind, that carry difficulty with them." ' Does it not/ Locke asks, ' require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle ; for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle ; neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1897 - 466 Seiten
...they seem so to grown men it is only because by constant and familiar use they are made so. For, when we nicely reflect upon them, we shall find that general...skill to form the general idea of a triangle (which is yet none of the most abstract, comprehensive, and difficult); for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle,... | |
 | Heinrich Gomperz - 1897 - 122 Seiten
...diese gemeinsamen Merkmale für sich vorgestellt werden könnten. Schon Locke sagt bekanntlich1) . . . »does it not require some pains and skill(!) to form the general idea of a triangle . . . for it must be neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once.... | |
 | Heinrich Gomperz - 1897 - 112 Seiten
...gemeinsamen Merkmale für sich vorgestellt werden könnten. Schon Locke sagt bekanntlich1) . . . »does il not require some pains and skill(!) to form the general idea of a triangle . . . for it must be neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at oncc.... | |
 | Walter Smith - 1899 - 372 Seiten
...well-known passage in which he speaks of an abstraction of another order. " Does it not require," he asks, "some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle ; . . . for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon,... | |
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