So if any one should say, "one may sit upon a horse safer than on a camel," my abstract idea of the two animals includes only an outline of the level back of the one, and the gibbosity on the back of the other.
Thus when I have seen an object but once, as a rhinoceros, my abstract idea of this animal is the same as my complex one.
This link is not, says Berkeley, an abstract idea of extension, in which the visible and tangible sensations unite, for there is no such idea.
Now, I do not find that I can perceive, imagine, or anywise frame in my mind such an abstract idea as is here spoken of.
If he had not, could not have, an abstract idea before, he cannot have it after he is taught to speak.
The vagueness, the magnitude, the remoteness of the object, the resolute sacrifice of all immediate and gross advantages, clothe it with the privileges of an abstract idea, so that the project has the air of a fiction or of a story in a novel.
The effeminate clinging to life as such, as a general or abstract idea, is the effect of a highly civilised and artificial state of society.
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop
Wagner, a marked melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play; a sort of musical label.
Now I do not find that I can perceive, imagine, or any wise frame in my mind such an abstract idea as is here spoken of.
Let us therefore see how this celebrated author describes the general or abstract idea of a triangle.
The proposition always involves conceptual elements; for the predicate of a proposition is always an abstract idea or general notion.
Though it be not accompanied by an abstract idea, beauty ought to be acknowledged as the object of a necessary enjoyment.
Beauty appears to us as an object of general enjoyment, without awakening in us the consciousness of an abstract idea and of a category of reason to which we might refer our judgment.
Defn: A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands.
Therein, however, lies the very limit of the Platonic Idea—to emerge only as abstract idea.
The Idea, as abstract Idea, is the quiescent and inert; it only is in truth in as far as it grasps itself as living.
It is good generally, not as abstract idea, but in such a way that the moment of realization is what actually answers to it.
First, We have no abstract idea of existence, distinguishable and separable from the idea of particular objects.
For the case was this; everybody read so much about Abraham Newland, and so few people ever saw him, that there was a fixed belief that he was an abstract idea.
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