 | John Locke - 1722 - 640 lapas
...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 lapas
...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...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 lapas
...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 triangle (which is yet...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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;... 
