| John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 666 pages
...is so closely connected with classification, that, until the nature of the latter process is in tome measure understood, the former cannot be discussed...which have no meaning are unsusceptible of definition. Projjnr namrn. fhTrrftttTj rnnnnt be defined. A proper name being a mere mark put upon an individual,... | |
| William Fleming - 1860 - 710 pages
...quce mint ejvs rei proprice, qttam definire tolumus, brevia el circumscripta qucedam explication " The simplest and most correct notion of a definition...proposition declaratory of the meaning of a word."* Definition signifies "laying down a boundary;" and is used in Logic to signify "an expression which... | |
| William Fleming - 1860 - 698 pages
...quce sunt ejus rei proprice, quam defiiure volnmus, brevis el circumscripta qucedam exjilicalio.* " The simplest and most correct notion of a definition...is, a proposition declaratory of the meaning of a word."3 Definition signifies "laying down a boundary;" and is used in Logic to signify " an expression... | |
| 1864 - 974 pages
...and need no particular mention now. In chapter viii., treating of " definition," we are told that " the simplest and most correct notion of a definition...proposition declaratory of the meaning of a word." " Proper names, therefore, cannot be defined." " The usual mode of declaring the connotation of a name... | |
| George Jacob Holyoake - 1866 - 118 pages
...before we can be competent to determine which of them are fittest to be chosen for this purpose, "f ' The simplest and most correct notion of a definition...particular purposes of his discourse, intends to annex to it.'J But with most persons the object of a definition is merely to guide them to the correct use of... | |
| Friedrich Ueberweg - 1871 - 686 pages
...48-62, Berl. 1867 ; cf. Log. Unters. 2nd ed. ii. 224 ff.; 3rd ed. ii. 247 ff. [According to JS Mill, a Definition is a proposition declaratory of the meaning of a word, and so must directly or indirectly include its whole content or connotation, or express the sum total... | |
| Charles Porterfield Krauth - 1878 - 1082 pages
...rerum, guce sunt ejvs rei proprice, quam definire volumus, brevis el circumscripta qucedam explication " The simplest and most correct notion of a definition...is, a proposition declaratory of the meaning of a word."8 Definition signifies " laying down a boundary ;" and is used in Logic to signify "an expression... | |
| James Harmon Hoose - 1879 - 440 pages
...229. From Fleming's Vocabulary of Philosophy, ed. 1867. DEFINITION (deflnio, to mark out limits). " The simplest and most correct notion of a definition...proposition declaratory of the meaning of a word. ' ' Definition signifies " laying down a boundary ;" and is used in Logic to signify " an expression... | |
| James Harmon Hoose - 1879 - 476 pages
...229. From Fleming's Vocabulary of Philosophy, ed. 1867. DEFINITION (defhiio, to mark out limits). " The simplest and most correct notion of a definition...proposition declaratory of the meaning of a word. ' ' Definition signifies " laying down a boundary ;" and is used in Logic to signify " an expression... | |
| 1880 - 886 pages
...the explanation or statement of the meaning of a word, viz., either the meaning it usually bear**, or that which the speaker or writer, for the particular...purposes of his discourse, intends to annex to it. To give merely another synonymous name — to say, fur instance, that " Man is a human being "—is... | |
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