Thought and Language: An Essay, Having in View the Revival, Correction, and Exclusive Establishment of Locke's Philosophy

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Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 - 197 páginas
 

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Página 77 - At catulos blande cum lingua lambere tentant, Aut ubi eos jactant pedibus, morsuque petentes, Suspensis teneros imitantur dentibus haustus. Longe alio pacto gannitu vocis adulant; Et cum deserti baubantur in
Página 77 - If my theory is true, the words of a sentence understood in their separate capacity, do not constitute the meaning of the whole sentence, (ie are not parts of its whole meaning,) and therefore, as parts of a sentence, they are not by themselves significant,"—Dr.
Página 29 - thing. Berkeley may be made further serviceable to Locke. For subsequently to his " Theory of Vision," he published " A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge," in •which he follows out, to its legitimate consequences, the doctrine of all philosophers who start upon the hypothesis of two substances, Mind and Matter, which divide the universe,—the doctrine, namely, that mind cannot become acquainted with matter except by means of its
Página 66 - secondly, the idea" (knowledge) " of nature; and thirdly, the idea of the absolute and eternal as manifested in the pure conceptions of our impersonal reason." Of this passage, which is intended to be fundamental in order to serve as a standard for estimating all the philosophy of which the history treats, the whole spirit is German : the use of the word idea is German : it implies a something existing in the mind
Página 9 - must it be supposed that the 8 Beside articles relative to Locke in several of the reviews, the following works, among others, have appeared, since these pages were first written, all of them tending in the direction of my own efforts: " On the Study of Language, an Exposition of the Diversions of Purley : by Charles
Página 66 - Historical, &c., first edition, vol. i, p. 63.) " The three great and primary elements of all our knowledge, are, first, the idea of our own individual existence;" (in any improved revival of Locke's philosophy, what is here called an idea, would be called
Página 77 - magna Molossum Mollia ricta fremunt, duros nudantia denteis, Longe alio sonitu rabie distracta minantur ; Et cum jam latrant, et vocibus omnia
Página 77 - Might not Mr. Smart as well say, that the several numbers which together amount to a total number, do not constitute— are not parts of—that total number; and that the figures representing such several numbers, are not by themselves

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