A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four PartsHarper & brothers, 1836 - 274 páginas |
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... speaking of colours • SECTION 6. - As colours can depict sights only , so words can converse of nothing external which is not sight , sound , taste , feel , or smell • · · • • SECTION 8. - An external thing that is not sensible , is as ...
... speaking of colours • SECTION 6. - As colours can depict sights only , so words can converse of nothing external which is not sight , sound , taste , feel , or smell • · · • • SECTION 8. - An external thing that is not sensible , is as ...
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... speak of defects in language , most persons suppose that I allude to the admitted ambiguity of speech . My remarks will not concern the relative meaning which words bear to each other , but the relation that words bear to the phenomena ...
... speak of defects in language , most persons suppose that I allude to the admitted ambiguity of speech . My remarks will not concern the relative meaning which words bear to each other , but the relation that words bear to the phenomena ...
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... speak of the sight alone , we employ a periphrasis , and say the appearance of the fire , the appearance of the chair , & c . § 13. — Tastes , smells , sounds , and feels , are seldom designated specifically by names . Men have been ...
... speak of the sight alone , we employ a periphrasis , and say the appearance of the fire , the appearance of the chair , & c . § 13. — Tastes , smells , sounds , and feels , are seldom designated specifically by names . Men have been ...
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... table , I realize the feel external . When we speak of external , we should therefore explain to which we allude , -the sight or the feel . This ambi- guity was discovered by Locke , but he knew no LECT . III . ] 57 A TREATISE ON LANGUAGE .
... table , I realize the feel external . When we speak of external , we should therefore explain to which we allude , -the sight or the feel . This ambi- guity was discovered by Locke , but he knew no LECT . III . ] 57 A TREATISE ON LANGUAGE .
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... speaking , I am standing , several persons are present . Each of these assertions is a truth ; but if we seek among these truths for truth itself , believing it to be a unit , we are seeking in nature for what is merely a contrivance of ...
... speaking , I am standing , several persons are present . Each of these assertions is a truth ; but if we seek among these truths for truth itself , believing it to be a unit , we are seeking in nature for what is merely a contrivance of ...
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A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four ... Alexander Bryan Johnson Visualização integral - 1836 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
admit agent allude anchovy answer apply the word assert atoms aurora borealis become billiard balls bodies cause colour conclusion confound constitute contrivance created deem defect Deity delusion Descartes designate discourse discover discoverable discriminate divested of signification earth employ errour exhibit external existences external universe fallacy hence impute infinite divisibility insignificant internal feelings interpret interpret language invisible knowledge language implies LECTURE light logick matter moon motion mute names a sight natural theology nature of language necessity never object particles person philosopher phrase phraseology premises proceed produced question rays minus realities of nature relation retina revelations of nature rience senses reveal sensible existences sensible experience sensible information sensible meaning sensible particulars sensible phenomena sensible realities sensible signification shape sights and feels significant smells sound speculations suppose taste teach theory thing tion tortoise unit universal proposition verbal meaning verbal signification verbal thoughts words refer
Passagens conhecidas
Página 7 - THE HISTORY OF ARABIA, Ancient and Modern. Containing a Description of the Country— An account of its Inhabitants, Antiquities, Political Condition, and early Commerce — The Life and Religion of Mohammed— The Conquests, Arts, and Literature...
Página 8 - The Principles of Physiology, applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education.
Página 6 - A Popular Guide to the Observation of Nature ; or, Hints of Inducement to the Study of Natural Productions and Appearances, in their Connexions and Relations.
Página 4 - Turner's Sacred History of the World, attempted to be Philosophically considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son.
Página 2 - IN AFRICA. From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time With Illustrations of its Geology, Mineralogy, and Zoology.
Página 170 - ... shall be greater than the base of the other. Let ABC, DEF be two triangles, which have the two sides AB, AC, equal to the two DE, DF, each to each, viz.
Página 170 - For, if the triangle ABC be applied to DEF, so that the point A may be on D, and the straight line AB upon DE ; the point B shall coincide with the point E...
Página 3 - LIVES AND VOYAGES OF DRAKE, CAVENDISH, AND DAMPIER; Including "an Introductory View of the Earlier Discoveries in the South Sea, and the History of the Bucaniers.
Página 88 - But another man, who never took the pains to observe the demonstration, hearing a mathematician, a man of credit, affirm the three angles of a triangle to be equal to two right ones, assents to it, ie receives it for true.
Página 171 - B coinciding with E, and C with F, if the base BC does not coincide with the base EF, two straight lines would inclose a space, which is impossible».
Referências a este livro
The Journal of Social Psychology, Volumes 43-44 John Dewey,Carl Murchison Pré-visualização indisponível - 1956 |