 | George John Romanes - 1888 - 488 pages
...doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas that way to any degree ; tnis I think I 7 may be positive in, that the power of abstracting...and that, the having of general ideas is that which sa perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1891 - 636 pages
...brutes. ' This I may be positive in,' he writes, ' that the power of abstracting is not at all in brutes, and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes. For it is evident we observe no footsteps in these of making use of general... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1891 - 396 pages
...held, that language was from the beginning conceptual, and confirm the well-known statement of Locke, that " the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to."... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1891 - 734 pages
...held that language was from the beginning conceptual, and conf1rm the well-known statement of Locke, that 'the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.'... | |
 | Carl Vernon Tower - 1899 - 82 pages
...these, coupled with the passage immediately following the one we have just quoted, in which it is said that "the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brute," induce Berkeley to think that the having of abstract ideas means the possession of a faculty... | |
 | Rudolf Brotanek - 1902 - 616 pages
...getroffen; er sagt: "It may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstraeting is not at all in Ihem; and that the having of general idcas,1) is that which puts a perfeet... | |
 | Daniel Garrison Brinton - 1902 - 236 pages
...science can but "paraphrase the words which the philosopher Locke penned nigh two centuries ago : " The having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brute." The latest American writer on the subject merely repeats this when he phrases... | |
 | Daniel Garrison Brinton - 1902 - 234 pages
...science can but paraphrase the words which the philosopher Locke penned nigh two centuries ago : " The having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brute." The latest American writer on the subject merely repeats this when he phrases... | |
 | Daniel Garrison Brinton - 1902 - 234 pages
...science can but paraphrase the words which the philosopher Locke penned nigh two centuries ago : " The having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brute." The latest American writer on the subject merely repeats this when he using... | |
 | John Locke - 1905 - 382 pages
...not. — 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...general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.... | |
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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 between man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. 
