 | John Locke - 1808 - 346 pages
...being fictions of the mind. Does it not require some pains to form the general idea of a triangle ? for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither...nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once. In short, it is something imperfect, thatcannot exist, — an idea comprising some parts of several different... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 434 pages
...be (a power to form with " some " pains and skill the general idea of a triangle," for instance, " neither oblique, nor rectangle, " neither equilateral,....scalenon, " but all, and none of these at once*") let writers learn to he less dogmatical, and readers to be less implicit. It is undeniable, that there... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 530 pages
...essences we know, such as triangu* larity and justice, imperfect ideas, ideas that cannot exist, ideas wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together, according to Mr./ Locke. Thus abstraction becomes as great a mystery in philosophy, as any that religion... | |
 | John Locke - 1816 - 1048 pages
...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,...different and inconsistent ideas are put together. IL is true, the mind, in this imperfect state, has need of such ideas, and makes all the haste to them... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 506 pages
...description that is here given of the general idea of a triangle, which is, neither oblique, nor rectangle, equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once ? XIV. Much is here said of the difficulty that abstract ideas carry with them, and the pains and skill... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 514 pages
...description that is here given of the general idea of a triangle, which is, neither oblique, nor rectangle, equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once ? XIV. Much is here said of the difficulty that abstract ideas carry with them, and the pains and skill... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 546 pages
...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 ; but a//, and none .of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist ; an idea,... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 398 pages
...bstract,comprehensive, and difficult ?) for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrtiral, nor scalenon; but all and none of these at once. In effect is something imperfect, that cannot exist; an ic wherein some parts of several different and inci sistent... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 702 pages
...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: but nil and none of them- at once. In effort, it is something imperfect, that cannot exist; an idea wherein... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1824 - 490 pages
...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 scalenou ; but '7//, and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist... | |
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... 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 put... 
