| J. JOHNSON - 1801 - 374 pages
...most abstract, comprehensive, and 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, it is something imperfect, that cannot exist; an idea wherein some parts of several different... | |
| John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 520 pages
...comprehensive, and 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 once. In effect, it is something; imperfect, that .cannot exist ; an idea wherein some parts of several different... | |
| 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...equicrural, 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... | |
| 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 - Knowledge, Theory of - 1813 - 448 pages
...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...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... | |
| John Locke - 1819 - 460 pages
...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 equilateral, equicrural, nor scaleiion •; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imper* feet, that cannot... | |
| George Berkeley - 1820 - 506 pages
...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...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... | |
| George Berkeley - 1820 - 514 pages
...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...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... | |
| Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 546 pages
...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 - Philosophy - 1823 - 412 pages
...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...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... | |
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