| John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 666 pages
...latter process is in tome measure understood, the former cannot be discussed to much purpose. § 2. The simplest and most correct notion of a Definition...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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