 | Thomas Reid - 1803 - 676 pages
...reprefenting to ?' myfelf the ideas of thofe particular things I " have perceived, and of varioufly compounding " and dividing them. I can imagine a man " with two heads, or the upper p^rts of a man " joined to the body of a horfe. I can imagine " the hand, the eye, the nofe, each by... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1815 - 434 pages
...imagination, when we take that word in its strict and proper sense. '• I find," says Berkeley, " I have a faculty of imagining or representing to myself the ideas of those particular things I have perccived, and of variously compounding and dividing them. I can imagine a man with two heads, or the... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 514 pages
...nor creeping : it is nevertheless a motion, but what that motion is it is not easy to conceive. X. Whether others have this wonderful faculty of abstracting...myself the ideas of those particular things I have perceived,and of variously compounding and dividing them. I can imagine a man with two heads, or the... | |
 | Johann Eduard Erdmann - 1842 - 720 pages
...Whether others have this wonderful faculty of abstracting their ideas they best can tell : for my self I find indeed I have a faculty of imagining or representing...perceived and of variously compounding and dividing them. — But I deny that I can abstract one from another or conceive separatly those qualities which it... | |
 | Johann Eduard Erdmann - 1842 - 662 pages
...does not suppose their existence in the mind, and that it is well acquainted with them. Ibid. p. 7. Whether others have this wonderful faculty of abstracting their ideas they best can tell: for my self I find indeed I have a faculty of imagining or representing to myself the ideas.of those particular... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1855 - 308 pages
...observed, he speaks indiscriminately of common names and abstract terms. " Whether others," says he, " have this wonderful faculty of abstracting their ideas...perceived, and of variously compounding and dividing them. 1 can imagine a man with two heads, or the upper parts of a man joined to the body of a horse. I can... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1859 - 772 pages
...framed; which equally corresponds to all particular motions whatsoever that may be perceived by sense. "Whether others have this wonderful faculty of abstracting...things I have perceived, and of variously compounding 1 Sections vii. riii. x. Worla, I. 6 n ttq., 4to edit. C£ Encyclopedia Brittuunca, art. lletaphyna,... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - 1860 - 446 pages
...easily perceived to be self-contradictory, and the doctrine suicidal. " I have a faculty," he says, " of imagining or representing to myself the ideas of...dividing them. I can imagine a man with two heads, * P/iys. Ausc. \. 1. t Eisaij, b. iv. chap, vii., sect. 9. or the upper parts of a man joined to the... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - 1860 - 428 pages
...easily perceived to be self-contradictory, and the doctrine suicidal. " I have a faculty," he says, " of imagining or representing to myself the ideas of...dividing them. I can imagine a man with two heads, * Phys. Ausc. i. 1 . f Essay, b. iv., chap, vii., sect. 9. or the upper parts of a man joined to the... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 372 pages
...framed ; which equally corresponds to all particular motions whatever that may be perceived by sense. " Whether others have this wonderful faculty of abstracting...them. I can imagine a man with two heads, or the upper part of a man joined to the body of a horse. I can consider the hand, the eye, the nose, each by itself... | |
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Whether others have this wonderful faculty of abstracting their ideas, they best can tell ; for myself, I find indeed I have a faculty of imagining, or representing to myself the ideas of those particular things I have perceived, and of variously compounding... 
