 | John Locke - 1828 - 590 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... | |
 | Johann Eduard Erdmann - 1840
...particular ideas , received from particular objects, to become general. — This is «ailed abstraction. — The having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes. — They have not the faculty of abstracting or making general ideas, since they have no use of words... | |
 | 1855
...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. .... It seems as evident... | |
 | 1857
...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 observe... | |
 | 1861
...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." Now precisely these general... | |
 | 1861
...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." Now precisely these general... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1861 - 399 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." If Locke is right in... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 416 pages
...gather from such isolated cases as when Yon Hammer counts 5,744 words relating to the camel.* The feet that every word is originally a predicate — that...established as preferable to the theories both of Onomatopoiea and of Interjections. But, though our modern philosophy did not know it, the ancient poets... | |
 | 1862
...before that language is the distinguishing characteristic of man ; it was known also that the having general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brntes ; but that these two were only different expressions of the came fact was not known till the... | |
 | 1863
...it was known also that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes ; but that these two were only different...known till the theory of roots had been established. All naming is classification, bringing the individual under the general In order to call the first... | |
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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... 
