Since all things that exist are only particulars, how come we by general terms?' His answer is, 'Words become general by being made the signs of general ideas' (Essay on Human Understanding, b. The pure philosophical works - Стр. 415авторы: George Berkeley - 1871Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| C. J. McCracken, I. C. Tipton - 2000 - Страниц: 314
...stands for it, is man. 3.3.6. The next thing to be considered is how general words come to be made. For since all things that exist are only particulars, how come we by general terms, or where find we those general natures they are supposed to stand for? Words become general by being... | |
| Alice Marguerite Crary, Alice Crary, Rupert J. Read - 2000 - Страниц: 430
...reason and necessity. . . . The next thing to be considered is, how general words come to be made. For since all things that exist are only particulars, how come we by general terms, or where find we those general natures they are supposed to stand for? [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,... | |
| Frederick Copleston - 2003 - Страниц: 452
...obviously necessary that there should be general names, the question arises how we come to have them. 'For since all things that exist are only particulars, how come we by general terms or where find we those general natures they are supposed to stand for?'2 Locke replies that words become... | |
| Andrew Linzey, Paul A. B. Clarke - 2004 - Страниц: 240
...to abstract or generalize their ideas. That this is the sense and arguing of the author will further appear by his answering the question he in another...of general ideas' (Essay on Human Understanding, b. iii, ch. iii, sect. 6). But it seems that a word becomes general by being made the sign, not of an... | |
| Bertrand Russell - 2004 - Страниц: 313
...generalize their ideas. That this is the sense and arguing of the author will further appear by Ms answering the question he in another place puts :...of general ideas.' (Essay on Human Understanding, Bk. Ill, chap. iii, paragraph 6.) But it seems that a word becomes general by being made the sign,... | |
| John Russell Roberts - 2007 - Страниц: 200
...trees everywhere would be a very strange object indeed. Thus, Locke puts the problem this way: "[f]or since all things that exist are only particulars, how come we by general Terms, or where find we those general Natures they are supposed to stand for?"22 Locke is committed to the... | |
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