 | George Stuart Fullerton - 1887 - 146 ページ
...held, all comparison of objects differing in any of their qualities would be impossible. If we can consider a figure merely as triangular, without attending...qualities of the angles or relations of the sides, then we can in some sort divorce the elements included under the general word triangle from the accompanying... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1890 - 600 ページ
...aforesaid/' And yet Berkeley, in another passage concedes the power of abstraction so far as this : " A man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without...qualities of the angles or relations of the sides. So far be may abstract. But this will never prove that he can frame an abstract, general, inconsistent idea... | |
 | George Francis James, Harry Eugene Kohn, Paul Richter, Wilhelm Carls, Willy Freytag - 1893 - 644 ページ
...of Human Knowledge entgegenzustehen scheint, worin gesagt ist, dass „a man may consider a fiyure merely as triangular, without attending to the particular...qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides", und dass „in like manner we may consider Peter so far forth as man, or so far forth as animal ....... | |
 | George Trumbull Ladd - 1894 - 710 ページ
...Berkeley, in a measure, contradicts the decIn rat ion of the passage just quoted, for be says: "A man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without...qualities of the angles or relations of the sides," etc. But surely a figure "merely as triangular " cannot possibly exist as " separated " from " particular... | |
 | George Trumbull Ladd - 1894 - 742 ページ
...2. REALISM AND NOMINALISM 443 laration of the passage just quoted, for be says: "A man may considera figure merely as triangular, without attending to...qualities of the angles or relations of the sides," etc. But surely a figure " merely as triangular " cannot possibly exist as " separated " from " particular... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1897 - 466 ページ
...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... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1897 - 558 ページ
...as triangular, without_ attending to the particular qualities of the angles, or "relations of th e sides So far he may abstract; but this will never prove that he can trame an abstract, general, inconsistent idea of a triangle. In like manner we may consider Peter so... | |
 | John Watson - 1898 - 526 ページ
...or (b) 'make a particular demonstration for every particular triangle,' Berkeley answers that "a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without...qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides." * In other words, the mathematioian has before him a particular sensible triangle, not an 'abstract... | |
 | Walter Smith - 1899 - 372 ページ
...in real existence inseparable from 1 Essay, Bk. IV, Chap. VII, § 9. them, as when a man considers a figure merely as triangular without attending to...qualities of the angles or relations of the sides. But a general idea of a triangle like that which Locke demanded is to him quite unintelligible. But... | |
 | George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1901 - 646 ページ
...proposition of the abstract idea of a triangle, j ' And here it must be acknowledged that a man may cons1der a figure merely as triangular ; without attending...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... | |
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I 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 attending to the particular qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides. So far... 
