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" ... particular ideas received from particular objects to become general; which is done by considering them as they are in the mind such appearances, separate from all other existences and the circumstances of real existence, as time, place, or any other... "
A New Dictionary of the English Language - Page 14
by Charles Richardson - 1839 - 886 pages
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1796 - 560 pages
...circumftancrs of real cxiilcncc, as time, place, or any other concomitant klcas. This is called abftradiorr, whereby ideas, taken from particular beings, become general representatives of all of the fame kind, and their names general names, applicable to whatever exills con.formable to fuch abftract...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 554 pages
...circumstances of real existence, as time, place, or any other concomitant ideas. This is called abstraction* whereby ideas, taken from particular beings, become...general names, applicable to whatever exists conformable to such abstract ideas. Such precise naked appearances in the mind, without considering how, whence,...
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An Analytical Abridgment of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1808 - 346 pages
...would be endless : particular Ideas, then, considered apart from the circumstances of time, place, &c. become general representatives of all of the same kind, and their names general names : this is called Abstraction: thus, whiteness represents the appearance of chalk, snow, aud milk. Brutes,...
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A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle: In Four Books ...

Thomas Taylor - Philosophy, Ancient - 1812 - 628 pages
...real existence, as time, place, or any other concomitant ideas. This, he adds, is called abstraction, whereby ideas taken from particular beings, become...general names, applicable to whatever exists conformable to such abstract ideas. That such precise naked appearances in the mind, the understanding lays up...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1813 - 518 pages
...circumstances of real existence, as time, place, or any other concomitant ideas. This is called ABSTRACTION, whereby ideas, taken from particular beings, become...general names, applicable to whatever exists conformable to such abstract ideas. Such precise naked appearances in the mind, without considering how, whence,...
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An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works ...

John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...circumstances of real existence, as time, place, or any other concomitant ideas. This is called abstraction, whereby ideas, taken from particular beings, become...general names, applicable to whatever exists conformable to such abstract ideas. Such precise naked appearances in the mind, without considering how, whence,...
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An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now added, i. Analysis ...

John Locke - 1816 - 1048 pages
...is called abstraction, whereby ideas, taken from particular beings, become \ Ch. II. Discerning. 139 general representatives of all of the same kind, and...general names, applicable to whatever exists conformable to such abstract ideas. Such precise naked appearances in the mind., without considering how, whence,...
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The Works of John Locke, Volume 1

John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 386 pages
...circumstances of real existence, as time, place, or any other concomitant ideas. This is called abstraction, whereby ideas, taken from particular beings, become...general names, applicable to whatever exists conformable to such abstract ideas. Such precise naked appearances in the mind, without considering how, whence,...
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An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now added, i. analysis ...

John Locke - 1824 - 552 pages
...circumstances of real existence, as time, place, or any other concomitant ideas. This is called abstraction, whereby ideas, taken from particular beings, become...general names, applicable to whatever exists conformable to such abstract ideas. Such precise naked appearances in the mind, without considering how, whence,...
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A Series of Lectures upon Locke's Essay

Dionysius Lardner - 1824 - 218 pages
...existence, as the circumstances of time, place, or any other concomitant ideas* This is called abstraction, whereby ideas taken from particular beings, become...general names, applicable to whatever exists conformable to such abstract ideas." — B. 2. Ch. XI. § 9. It appears from this, that it is to prevent names...
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