A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four PartsHarper & brothers, 1836 - 274 páginas |
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... difficulty , that in France , the people eat apples , and still know not the meaning of the word apple . We smile at the child , but we all conform more nearly to the child than we imagine , in our identification of language with the ...
... difficulty , that in France , the people eat apples , and still know not the meaning of the word apple . We smile at the child , but we all conform more nearly to the child than we imagine , in our identification of language with the ...
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... in nature for what is merely a contrivance of language . " What is truth ? " said Pilate . He supposed it a unit , and hence the difficulty of the question . All things that we call LECT . IV . ] 59 A TREATISE ON LANGUAGE .
... in nature for what is merely a contrivance of language . " What is truth ? " said Pilate . He supposed it a unit , and hence the difficulty of the question . All things that we call LECT . IV . ] 59 A TREATISE ON LANGUAGE .
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... difficulty of the question . All things that we call truths , pos- sess certain general characteristicks ; just as snow , salt , silver , and glass , possess certain characteristicks , which entitle them all to the designation of white ...
... difficulty of the question . All things that we call truths , pos- sess certain general characteristicks ; just as snow , salt , silver , and glass , possess certain characteristicks , which entitle them all to the designation of white ...
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... difficulty which would attend the passage of our hand through the crystal , and we deem the passage of the light identical with the passage of the hand . Nothing is more falla- cious than thus to construe the word passage in these ...
... difficulty which would attend the passage of our hand through the crystal , and we deem the passage of the light identical with the passage of the hand . Nothing is more falla- cious than thus to construe the word passage in these ...
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... difficulty vanishes if we consider the words circle and curve as names of sights and feels . Mathematicians are correct so long as the words refer to sensible existences ; but when they speak of a curve which can neither be seen nor ...
... difficulty vanishes if we consider the words circle and curve as names of sights and feels . Mathematicians are correct so long as the words refer to sensible existences ; but when they speak of a curve which can neither be seen nor ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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
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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».
Referencias a este libro
The Journal of Social Psychology, Volúmenes43-44 John Dewey,Carl Murchison Sin vista previa disponible - 1956 |