They merely give the owner a general ideaas to what to expect.
A thumb rule for calculating the cost of plate glass, which is not strictly accurate but which gives a general idea, is to calculate on from fifty to seventy-five cents per square foot.
We are not without the means of getting a general idea of its character.
From the various direct and indirect references in St. Paul's Epistles we can form a general idea of the life and teaching of Jesus, as it must have been accepted by the Churches to which he wrote.
In the absence of cuts, we can not do more than give a general idea of these ruins.
C----had learned a general idea of grammar in conversation, in the manner which we have described.
We need not, however, be in any hurry to teach our pupil the names of the cases; technical grammar may be easily learned, after a general idea of rational grammar has been obtained.
According to this usage, the term “abstract idea” is practically synonymous with the term “general idea.
Clearly it depends on whether we hold it essential to an abstract or general ideathat it should be incarnate as a word.
And then he stood away a little, eyeing him from the side, and taking in a general idea of the form and make of the whole.
She had spoken to Fanny on this very subject--not fearing for her son, but with a general idea of the impropriety of intimacies between such girls as Lucy and such men as Lord Lufton, and then Fanny had agreed with her.
Or, we may form a concept of Napoleon Bonaparte, by combining his several qualities and properties and thus form a general idea of the man.
Conception or Generalization is that faculty of the Mind by which it forms and groups together several particular ideas in the form of a general idea.
From these combined processes we form a Concept, or general ideaof the class of things to which the particular things belong.
Judgment is also used in forming a concept, in the first place, for we must compare qualities before we can form a general idea.
I shall now endeavour to explain what is included in what I have called for distinction sake, the second general idea of form, in a much fuller manner than was done in Chapter I, of Fitness.
Secondly, that general idea, now to be discussed, which we commonly have of form altogether, as arising chiefly from a fitness to some design'd purpose or use.
Brumoi is very much to be commended for having taken care, in giving a general idea of Aristophanes’s writings, to throw a veil over those parts of them that might have given offence to modesty.
This is a general idea of the nature and effects of this river, so famous among the ancients.
The predicate thinking is the expression of a general idea, comprehending not only all thought, but also all phenomena which immediately affect the mind.
But this reality is sterile unless offered to the mind under a general idea; for it is evident that the soul does not come from one single act, since it is unity, the subject of plurality.
When we suppress this basis, by abstracting it, we retain nothing of body beyond a general idea of being or substance without any thing to characterize it, or to distinguish it from others.
Such is my general idea of the preceding plate;[144] there may be those who will discover many things which I do not see, and which possibly never entered into the contemplation of the artist.
I think the view which I have been advocating, to the effect that a general idea is distinguished from a vague one by the presence of a judgment, is also that intended by Ribot when he says (op.
I am inclined to think that it consists merely in the knowledge that no one individual is represented, so that what distinguishes a general idea from a vague idea is merely the presence of a certain accompanying belief.
An image may thus come to fulfil the function of a general idea.
The phrases have to a considerable extent acquired their own meaning, so that even one who is not familiar with the Scriptures is not likely to have difficulty in getting from them a general idea.
We require to have a general idea of the nature and aim of the whole in order to know what to look for.
The generalization of a class is not, as the conceptual logic assumes, the abstraction of a general idea, but an inference from the analogy of a whole individual thing, e.
For the same reason it is erroneous to confuse "all existing" with a general idea.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general idea" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
