 | Robert Blakey - 1833 - 402 páginas
...himself has given of this word. He says, " it is that term which I think seems but to stand for whatever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks....which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it." Here is a very long and particular definition of the word... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1833 - 408 páginas
...word idea, notion, which could not, from its etymology, be construed to mean image ; or, as he eays, whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking. Now, I should like to learn from these philosophers, who think they have accomplished such mighty things... | |
 | John Haslam - 1835 - 52 páginas
...of the word Idea, which he will find in the following Treatise. It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object...which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it." Dr. REID follows nearly in the same track:—" It is a... | |
 | John Locke - 1838 - 590 páginas
...the word " idea," which he will find in the following treatise. It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object...used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notions, species, or whatever it is, which the mind can be employed about in thinking ; and I could... | |
 | Claude Buffier - 1838 - 224 páginas
...than to be in the understanding, in the same way as other objects usually are. Locke uses the term, for " Whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks." As to the signification, then, of-Idea, these two Philosophers seem agreed ; they differ only as to... | |
 | George Campbell - 1840 - 450 páginas
...hand, and the conceptions of the intellect on the other, " it being that term which," in his opinion, " serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding, when a man thinks7." Accordingly, he no where, that I remember, defines it with some logicians, " a pattern or... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 páginas
...when he is making an apology for the frequent use of it : — " It being that term, I think, which serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man t hin lie, or whatever it is which a man can be employed about in thinking." By this definition, indeed,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 570 páginas
...to him by Mr. Coleridge, in any of his writings. SC] t ["It (Idea) being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object...notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can the two ideas has been represented by the senses, and the other by the memory. Long9 however before... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 462 páginas
...which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is tho object of the understanding, when a roan thinks ; I have used it to express whatever is meant...which the mind can be employed about in thinking." Human Understand. I. iT s. 8. Ed.J t [" By the term, Impression, then, I mean all our more lively perceptions,... | |
 | William Whewell - 1847 - 754 páginas
..."idea" is, as the reader will perceive, different from ours. He uses the word, as he says, which " serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object...understanding when a man thinks." " I have used it," he adds, " to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is \6 which the... | |
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It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about... 
