 | Dugald Stewart - 1847 - 666 sivua
...said, that general and universal belong not to the real existence of things, but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding, made by it for its...Words are general, as has been said, when used for •igns of general ideas, and so are applicable iinlilii n-nil v to many particular thingi ; and ideas... | |
 | Claude Henri Victor Cousin - 1852 - 464 sivua
...2 : " General and universal belong not to the real existence of things ; but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding, made by it for its...use, and concern only signs, whether words or ideas." You see it is the very foundation of nominalism. It is important to examine, although succinctly, this... | |
 | John Locke - 1853 - 588 sivua
...that general and universal belong not to the real existence of things ; but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding, made by it for its...things ; and ideas are general when they are set up .is the representatives of many particular things : but universality belongs not to things themselves,... | |
 | Victor Cousin - 1853 - 444 sivua
...2 : " General and universal belong not to the real existence of things; but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding, made by it for its...use, and concern only signs, whether words or ideas." You see it is the very foundation of nominalism. It is important to examine, although succinctly, this... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 sivua
...inventions and creatures of the undorsta'iding, made by it, for its own nt-e, and co'ircrn only s gns, whether words or ideas. Words are general, as has...and ideas are general, when they are set up as the repru.sc'itatives of nia'iy particular things; but universality belongs not to things themselves, which... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 592 sivua
...that General and Universal, belong not to the real existence of things ; but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding, made by it for its...use, and concern only signs, whether words or ideas." " When therefore we quit particulars the generals that rest [remain] are creatures of our own making,... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1873 - 730 sivua
...Qtnerai and Universal, belong not to the real existence of things ; but are the invention* and creature* of the understanding, made by it for its own use, and concern only signs, whether words or ideas." u When therefore we quit particulars tho generaU that rest [remain] arc creatures of our own making,... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1874 - 594 sivua
...that Qtneral and Universal, belong not to the real existence of things ; but are the intent iant and creatures of the understanding, made by it for its...use, and concern only signs, whether words or ideas." " When therefore we quit particulars the generals that reft [remain] are crcatures of our own making,... | |
 | 1874 - 852 sivua
...plain that general and universal belong not to the real existence of things, but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding, made by it for its...and concern only signs, whether words or ideas."* Thus the ideas, with Locke, are also, like the words, but *igns — not ascending to the dignity of... | |
 | John Locke - 1877 - 544 sivua
...that general and universal belong not to t^e real existence of things ; but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding, made by it for its...are set up as the representatives of many particular things'J^but^universality belongs not to things themselves, which are \fl of them particular in their... | |
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To return to general words, it is plain, by what has been said, that general and " universal belong not to the real existence of things, but are the inventions and " creatures of the understanding, made by it for its own use, and concern only signs, 
