 | J. JOHNSON - 1801 - 374 pages
...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 most abstract,...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 - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 520 pages
...are apt to imagine, lor 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,...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... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 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) - Great Britain - 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... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 460 pages
...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...nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scaleiion •; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imper* feet, that cannot... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 546 pages
...in this often-quoted passage — " Does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle, (which is yet none of the most abstract,...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 - Knowledge, Theory of - 1823 - 398 pages
...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, equicrtiral, nor scalenon; but all and none of these at once. In effect is something imperfect, that... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 404 pages
...does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle (whichis yet noneofthe most abstract, comprehensive, and difficult ?) for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle,neither equilateral, cquicrural, nor scaled non ; but all and none of these at once. In effect,... | |
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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;... 
