...qualities which it is impossible should exist so separated." But it another passage he concedes, " A man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without...of the angles or relations of the sides. So far he maj abstract" Mill is very full and decided in recognizing the distinction of things and thtii attributes...

...abstraction, as in his Principles of Human Knowledge : " And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular without...he can frame an abstract general inconsistent idea [in the sense of image] of a triangle. In like manner we may consider Peter so far forth as man, so...

...the proposition of the abstract idea of a triangle, f 1 And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without...or relations of the sides. So far he may abstract 1; but this will never prove that he can frame an abstract, general, inconsistent idea of a triangle....

...bestimmte ') Herausgeg. v. Fraser Indroduction 13 p. 145. — 2) Introduct. 16. 3) that a man uiay consider a figure merely as triangular, without attending to the particular qualities of the angles. *) London 1739. Quantität und Qualität gegeben sein kann. In positiver Beziehung führt er den Begriff...

...the proposition of the abstract idea of a triangle. [l And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without attending to the particular qualities of 1 What follows to the end of this section was added in Berkeley's third edition. the angles, or relations...

...aforesaid." And yet Berkeley, in another passage concedes the power of abstraction so far as this : "A man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without...he may abstract. But this will never prove that he ean frame an abstract, general, inconsistent idea of a triangle." In respect to generalization also,...

...idea" (§ xviii.). But these are mere verbal misunderstandings. Berkeley acknowledges that " a man may consider a figure merely as triangular without...qualities of the angles or relations of the sides" (§ xvi.). He holds that " an idea, which considered in itself is particular, becomes general by being...

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...held, all comparison of objects differing in any of their qualities would be impossible. If we can consider a figure merely as triangular, without attending...qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides, then we can in some sort divorce the elements included under the general word ' triangle ' from the...

...abstraction, as in his Principles of Human Knowledge: " And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular without...he can frame an abstract general inconsistent idea [in the sense of image] of a triangle. In like manner we may consider Peter so far forth as man, so...