 I conceive, be found, if we advert to one of the characteristic properties of geometrical forms — their capacity of being painted in the imagination with a distinctness equal to reality ; in other words, the exact resemblance of our ideas of form to...  The Will: Divine and Human - Σελίδα 84των Thomas Solly - 1856 - 291 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Stuart Mill - 1846 - 624 σελίδες
...trust I cannot be accused of understating, a satisfactory answer will, I conceive, be found, if we advert to one of the characteristic properties of...place, enables us to make (at least with a little practice) mental pictures of all possible combinations of lines and angles, which resemble the realities... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1846 - 630 σελίδες
...trust I cannot be accused of understating, a satisfactory answer will, I conceive, be found, if we advert to one of the characteristic properties of...words, the exact resemblance of our ideas of form td the sensations which suggest them. This, in the first place, enables us to make (at least with a... | |
 | William Whewell - 1849 - 104 σελίδες
...further holds (i. 309), that it is a characteristic property of geometrical forms, that they are capable of being painted in the imagination with a distinctness equal to reality : — that our ideas of forms exactly resemble our sensations ; which, it is implied, is not the case... | |
 | William Whewell - 1849 - 126 σελίδες
...further holds (i. 309), that it is a characteristic property of geometrical forms, that they are capable of being painted in the imagination with a distinctness equal to reality : — that our ideas of forms exactly resemble our sensations ; which, it is implied, is not the case... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1850 - 616 σελίδες
...trust I cannot be accused of understating, a satisfactory answer will, I conceive, be found, if we advert to one of the characteristic properties of...capacity of being painted in the imagination with a distinctnef>s equal to reality : in other words, the exact resemblance of our ideas of form to the... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - 1851 - 350 σελίδες
...* . . . ^ matical as compared with physical truths is a mere self-deception. He lays much stress on one of the characteristic properties of geometrical...ideas of form to the sensations which suggest them n. But while it is impossible to deny the ability with which Mr. Mill combats the notion of an a priori... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - 1853 - 60 σελίδες
...Mr. Mill attempts to reduce these concepts to mere generalizations from experience. He insists on " their capacity of being painted in the imagination...our ideas of form to the sensations which suggest themf." This resemblance is so far from being implied in the mental distinctness of the geometrical... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 666 σελίδες
...conceive, be found, if we advert to one of the characteristic properties of geometrical forms-f-their capacity of being painted in the imagination with...place, enables us to make (at least with a little practice) mental pictures of all possible combinations of lines and angles, which resemble the realities... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 σελίδες
...the meaning of the words, he answers, " one of the characteristic properties of geometrical forms is their capacity of being painted in the imagination with a distinctness equal to reality/' These mental pictures are "just as fit subjects of geometrical experimentation as the realities themselves."... | |
 | 1860 - 446 σελίδες
...necessity whatever. " If we advert," says Mr. Stuart Mill,* " to one of the characteristic elements of geometrical forms — their capacity of being painted...place, enables us to make (at least with a little practice) mental pictures of all possible combinations of lines and angles, which resemble the realities... | |
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