Thought and Language: An Essay, Having in View the Revival, Correction, and Exclusive Establishment of Locke's PhilosophyLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 - 197 páginas |
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absolute abstract abstractly act of intellection admit anamorphosis apprehended Aristotelian Aristotelian logic Aristotle artificial language awakened babe becomes beginning brute called cause certainty chapter common complete complex ideas conclusion construction convey deny distinct early knowledge effect elements emotion error Essay existence expression facts of consciousness formal syllogism former gism goose gout grammatical Hegel Horne Tooke human creature inquiry instance instinctive intel join Kant Kantists kind learning ledge Locke Locke's philosophy Lockeists logic meaning metaphysics mode nature noumenon noun occur original outward world pain perceived perception perly pheno Plato premises present pure Purley quædam reason received reductio ad absurdum regard repeat Samuel Bailey sentence sentient signify signs simple ideas Sir William Hamilton sleep speculation speech STAMFORD STREET stand step suggestive occasions supposed swan takes place term idea things of sense tion true truth understanding verb whole word wrong yield
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Página 2 - ARISTOTLE tells us, that the world is a copy or transcript of those ideas which are in the mind of the first Being, and that those ideas which are in the mind of man are a transcript of the world. To this we may add, that words are the transcript of those ideas which are in the mind of man, and that writing or printing are the transcript of words.
Página 56 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Página 130 - But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational...
Página 127 - Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is high as heaven ; what canst thou do ? Deeper than Sheol ; what canst thou know ? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, And broader than the sea.
Página 26 - I must confess then, that when I first began this discourse of the understanding, and a good while after, I had not the least thought that any consideration of words was at all necessary to it. But when, having passed over the original and composition of our ideas, I began to examine the extent and certainty of our knowledge, I found it had so near a connexion with words, that, unless their force and manner of signification were first well observed, there could be very little said clearly...
Página 134 - In reading, for example, the enunciation of a proposition, we are apt to fancy, that for every word contained in it, there is an idea presented to the understanding ; from the combination and comparison of which ideas, results that act of the mind called judgment. So different is all this from the fact, that our words, when examined separately, are often as completely insignificant as the letters of which they are composed ; deriving their meaning solely from the connexion, or relation, in which...
Página 135 - In instances of this sort, it will be generally found, upon an accurate examination, that the intellectual act, as far as we are able to trace it, is altogether simple, and incapable of analysis ; and that the elements into which we flatter ourselves we have resolved it, are nothing more than the grammatical elements of speech ; — the logical doctrine about the comparison of ideas bearing a much closer affinity to the task of a school-boy in parsing his lesson, than to the researches of philosophers,...
Página 145 - Longe alio sonitu rabie restricta minantur, Et cum jam latrant, et vocibus omnia complent. 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 sedibus, aut cum Plorantes fugiunt summisso corpore plagas.
Página 138 - Aristotle's definition of a word, namely, " a sound significant of which no part is by itself significant ;" * for if our 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 that sentence, they are not by themselves significant...
Página 135 - Previous to this, the former words and phrases resemble those detached and unmeaning patches of different colours, which compose what opticians call an anamorphosis ; while the effect of the verb, at the end, may be compared to that of the mirror by which the anamorphosis is reformed, and which combines these apparently fortuitous materials into a beautiful portrait or landscape. In instances of this sort, it will...