...entering on any new speculations concerning our reasoning powers; and shall, at the same time, introduce some occasional illustrations of the principles which...the angles, or relations of the sides. So far he may ab* See a book entitled, Elements of Intellectual Philosophy, by the late learned aud justly regretted...

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...unwarily to grant all that is necessary to support abstract and general conceptions. " A man," he says, " may consider a figure merely as triangular, without attending to the particular qualitics of the angles, or relations of the sides. So far he may abstract. But this will never prove...

...demonstrated the proposition of the abstract idea of a triangle. And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without...abstract general inconsistent idea of a triangle. In like manner we may consider Peter so far forth as man, or so far forth as animal, without framing...

...demonstrated the proposition of the abstract idea of a triangle. And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without...abstract general inconsistent idea of a triangle. In like manner we may consider Peter so far forth as man, or so far forth as animal, without framing...

...thing admitted on both sides, " that we have a power of reasoning concerning a " figure considered merely as triangular, without attending to the " particular...qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides ;" and also, that " we may reason concerning Peter or John, considered so " far forth as man, or so...

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...a thing admitted on both sides, " that we have a power of reasoning concerning a figure considered merely as triangular, without attending to the particular...qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides ; " and also, that " we may reason concerning Peter or John, considered so far forth as man, or so...

...the sides are at all concerned in the demonstration. — And here it must be acknowledged. that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without...qualities of the angles or relations of the sides. So far the may abstract. But this will never prove, that he can frame an abstract general inconsistent idea...