We have in our minds a multitude of general conceptions, the result of previous observation and thought.
It must be then that we have general abstract ideas, or general conceptions.
If this be a correct account of the instrumentality of general conceptions in the comparison which necessarily precedes Induction, we shall easily be able to translate into our own language what Dr.
Thus we see the tendency of general conceptions, as soon as formed, to substitute themselves as types, for whatever individual objects previously answered that purpose in our comparisons.
If this be a correct account of the instrumentality of general conceptions in the comparison which necessarily precedes Induction, we are now able to translate into our own language what Dr.
Illustrations of the Value of General Conceptions 65 XVI.
For the better understanding of this, I would observe that sensible intuitions are allied to general conceptions, by whose aid they may be reconstructed.
This is all true; but it contradicts in no point what we have said concerning the intrinsic value of general conceptions.
Since Scholasticism, indeed properly since Plato and Aristotle, philosophy has been for the most part a systematic misuse of general conceptions.
Therefore, for him philosophy is a science of conceptions, but for me it is a science in conceptions, drawn from knowledge of perception, the one source of all evidence, and comprehended and made permanent in general conceptions.
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