 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 pages
...no conception " of the mediate object. " When, therefore, in common language, we speak of h.ivinj " an idea of any thing, we mean no more by that expression Lmt " thinking of it. The vulgar allow, that this expression implies "a mind that thinks; and an act... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Logic - 1822 - 312 pages
...used for the notions which we have of things, received by means of the other senses ; and, farther still, to those primary notions or elements of abstract...no more by that expression than to conceive of it. Hlus. But as we cannot conceive, or have a notion of any thing' without thinking of it, to constitute... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1822 - 432 pages
...object without which we could have no perception, no remembrance, no conception of the mediate object. When, therefore, in common language, we speak of having...idea of any thing, we mean no more by that expression but thinking of it. The vulgar allow, that this expression implies a mind that thinks ; an act of that... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Act (Philosophy). - 1827 - 706 pages
...without which we could have no perception, no remembrance, no conception of the mediate object. AVhen, therefore, in common language, we speak of having...of any thing, we mean no more by that expression, but thinking of it. The vulgar allow, that this expression implies a mind that thinks ; an act of that... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 pages
...object, without which we could have no perception, no remembrance, no conception of the mediate object. " When, therefore, in common language, we speak of having...of any thing, we mean no more by that expression, but thinking of it. The vulgar allow, that this expression implies a mind that thinks ; and an act... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 pages
...object, without which we could have no perception, no remembrance, no conception of the mediate object. " When, therefore, in common language, we speak of having...of any thing, we mean no more by that expression, but thinking of it. The vulgar allow, that this expression implies a mind that thinks ; and an act... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 448 pages
...object, without which we could have no perception, no remembrance, no conception of the mediate object. " When, therefore, in common language, we speak of having an idea of any tiling, we mean no more by that expression, but thinking of it. The vulgar allow, that this expression... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Logic - 1837 - 312 pages
...signifies a thought, representative of such objects as have been perceived by the sense of sight. Obs. It is solely owing to the poverty of language that...call thinking ; and an object about which we think. 36. The word idea, however, in a philosophical sense, means some image, or representative of an external... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...prcci».— H. which we could have no perception, no remembrance, no conception of the mediate object. * When, therefore, in common language, we speak of having an idea of anything, we mean no more by that expression, but thinking of it. The vulgar allow that this expression... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Intellect - 1850 - 496 pages
...to those verbs, and the object, which is, in the oblique case, governed by them.* 5. Idea. — When, in common language, we speak of having an idea of any thing, we mean no more by that expression than thinking of it. The vulgar allow, that this expression implies a mind that thinks, an act of that mind... | |
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When, therefore, in common language, we speak of having an idea of any thing, we mean no more by that expression but thinking of it. The vulgar allow, that this expression implies a mind that thinks ; an act of that mind which we call thinking, and an... 
