 | Roy Harris - 1996 - 332 pages
...degree, this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. For, it is evident, we... | |
 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 1997 - 437 pages
...John Locke (1632-1704), An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690; hereafter Essay), n1, 3, vi; "the having of general ideas, is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes," ib., n, 11, x; cp. n1, u, xvi; and regarding the general idea of a triangle, see 1v, 7, 1X. Rousseau... | |
 | Margaret Dauler Wilson - 1999 - 524 pages
...abstract: I think, I may be positive . . . that the power of Abstracting is not at all in them; and ... the having of general Ideas, is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt Man and Brutes; and is an Excellency which the Faculties of Brutes do by no means attain to.46 This seems to mean that... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - 2001 - 262 pages
...chapter, when Locke concludes that "the power of Abstracting is not at all in them [ie, beasts]; and that the having of general Ideas, is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt Man and brutes" (in; my italics at "perfect distinction"). As in the case of wit and judgment, an anxiety about contaminación... | |
 | Thomas DiPiero - 2002 - 338 pages
...degree; this, I think, I may be positive in,—that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to." 148 Reason clearly separated... | |
 | Rudolf Arnheim - 1997 - 345 pages
...passage just quoted, Locke said of animals that "the power of abstracting is not at all in them, and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes." And Pellet states: "Since the deaf and dumb are limited to their gesture language, which is descriptive... | |
 | Harriet Devine Jump - 2003 - 410 pages
...degree: This, I think, I may be positive in, That the power of Abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general Ideas, is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt Man and Brutes; and is an Excellency which the Faculties of Brutes do by no means attain to. "[19] It is this context... | |
 | John Shand - 2005 - 256 pages
...language, unlike non-human animals, because they have the psychological capacity to form abstract ideas: "the having of general Ideas, is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt Man and Brutes; and is an Excellency which the Faculties of Brutes do by no means attain to" (II. xi. 10). These abstract... | |
 | Jonathan Eric Adler, Catherine Z. Elgin - 2007 - 896 pages
...degree: this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and ler and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. For it is evident, we... | |
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If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas that way, to any degree: this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas, is that which puts a perfect... 
