 | John Locke - 1722 - 640 Seiten
...do not fo eafily offer themfelves, as we are apt to imagine. For example, Does it not require fome Pains and Skill to form the general Idea of a Triangle ( which is yet none of the moft abftract, comprehenflve and difficult) for it muft be neither Oblique, nor Rectangle, neither... | |
 | J. JOHNSON - 1801 - 374 Seiten
...them, and do not so easily offer themselves, as we are apt to imagine. For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a...difficult), for it must be neither oblique, nor rectangle, angle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon; but all and none of these at once. In effect,... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 520 Seiten
...them, and do not so easily offer themselves, as we are apt to imagine, lor example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a...difficult), for it must be neither oblique, nor rectangle, Gh. 7. Maxims. angle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at... | |
 | Robert Eden Scott - 1805 - 524 Seiten
...offer themfelves as we are ' apt to imagine. For example, does it not require fome ' pains and fkill to form the general idea of a triangle, ' (which is yet none of the moil abftrac\ comprehenfive, ' and difficult) ; for it muft be neither oblique, nor redl' angle, neither... | |
 | John Locke - 1808 - 346 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 460 Seiten
...them, and do not so easily offer themselves, as we are apt to imagine. For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle (which is yet none of the tirost abstract, comprehensive, and difficult), for it must be neither oblique, nor rectangle, neither... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 468 Seiten
...them, and do not so easily offer themselves, as we are apt to imagine. For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle (which is yet none ojfthe most abstract, comprehensive, nnd difficult), for it must be neither oblique, nor rectangle,... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 514 Seiten
...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 - 506 Seiten
...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... | |
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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;... 
