The Origin of Ideas, Volume 1Keegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1883 - Knowledge, Theory of |
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abstract Adam Smith admit affirm already analysis applied Aristotle ARTICLE attention attribute bodies called cause cognitions common name common nouns common qualities conceive concept Condillac considered contrary difficulty distinction Dugald Stewart element error essence exemplar experience explain express external things fact faculty feel genera and species Hence human mind idea of existence idea of substance imagination innate innate ideas intellectual perception judge judgment Kant knowledge language Leibnitz means nature necessary necessity Nominalists number of individuals Nuovo Saggio observation operation opinion origin of ideas particular ideas perceived petitio principii phantasms philo philosophers Plato possessed possible predicate principle priori proper name proper nouns proposition pure question reader real existence reason Reid Rosmini seen sensation sense sensible qualities signify simple apprehension Socrates soul speak subsistence suppose synthetical a priori term Themistius theory thought tion tree true truth understanding universal ideas vidual whiteness word
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Page 100 - And thus, those words, which were originally the proper names of individuals, would each of them insensibly become the common name of a multitude.
Page 99 - THE assignation of particular names to denote particular objects, that is, the institution of nouns substantive, would, probably be one of the ' first steps towards the formation of language. Two savages, who had never been taught to speak, but had been bred up remote from the societies of men, would naturally begin to form that language by which they would endeavour to make their mutual wants intelligible to each other, by uttering certain sounds, whenever they meant to denote certain...
Page 137 - According to this view of the process of the mind, in carrying on general speculations, that IDEA which the ancient philosophers considered as the essence of an individual, is nothing more than the particular quality or qualities in which \t resembles other individuals of the same class, and in consequence of which, a generic name is applied to it.
Page 150 - A universal is not an object of any external sense, and therefore cannot be imagined ; but it may be distinctly conceived. When Mr. Pope says, " The proper study of mankind is man...
Page 321 - Synthesis in general, as we shall hereafter see, is the mere result of the power of imagination, a blind but indispensable function of the soul, without which we should have no knowledge whatsoever, but of which we are scarcely ever conscious.
Page 122 - But these people seemed to know nothing of the existence of any other land animals, besides hogs, dogs, and birds. Our sheep and goats, they could see, were very different creatures from the two first, and therefore they inferred that they must belong to the latter class, in which they knew that there is a considerable variety of species.
Page 100 - What constitutes a species, is merely a number of objects, bearing a certain degree of resemblance to one another, and, on that account, denominated by a single appellation...
Page 275 - D'ailleurs on ne dort jamais si profondément qu'on n'ait quelque sentiment faible et confus ; et on ne serait jamais éveillé par le plus grand bruit du monde, si on n'avait quelque perception de son commencement, qui est petit ; comme on ne romprait jamais une corde par le plus grand effort du monde, si elle n'était tendue et allongée un peu par de moindres efforts, quoique cette petite extension qu'ils font ne paraisse pas.
Page 100 - It is this application of the name of an individual to a great multitude of objects, whose resemblance naturally recalls the idea of that individual, and of the name which expresses it, that seems originally to have given occasion to the formation of those classes aud assortments, which, in the schools, are called genera and species, and of which the ingenious and eloquent M.
Page 99 - The particular cave whose covering sheltered them from the weather, the particular tree whose fruit relieved their hunger, the particular fountain whose water allayed...