 Whether others have this wonderful faculty of abstracting their ideas they best can tell : for myself, I find indeed I have a faculty of imagining, or representing to myself the ideas of those particular things I have perceived, and of variously compounding...  Mediation: The Function of Thought - Page 158by Henrietta Sullivan - 1871 - 213 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Michael Maher - Psychology - 1902 - 658 pages
...others have this wonderful faculty of abstracting their ideas, they best can tell ; for myself I find I have a faculty of imagining or representing to myself the ideas of those particular things 1 have perceived, and of variously compounding and dividing them. I can imagine a man with two heads,... | |
 | George Berkeley - Idealism - 1904 - 166 pages
...faculty of abstracting their ideas, they best can tell: for myself [I dare be confident I have it not],* I find indeed I have a faculty of imagining, or representing...myself, the ideas of those particular things I have per*The bracketed words were omitted in the second edition (1734). ceived, and of variously compounding... | |
 | George Berkeley - Idealism - 1904 - 158 pages
...nor creeping; it is nevertheless a motion, but what that motion is it is not easy to conceive. io. Whether others have this wonderful faculty of abstracting their ideas, they best can tell : for myself [I dare be confident I have it not],* I find indeed I have a faculty of imagining, or representing to... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1908 - 472 pages
...nor creeping ; it is nevertheless a motion, but what that motion is it is not easy to conceive. 10. Whether others have this wonderful faculty of abstracting their ideas, they best can tell : for myself,1 I find indeed I have a faculty of imagining, or representing to myself, the ideas of those... | |
 | Edward Bradford Titchener - Psychology, Experimental - 1909 - 344 pages
...is here described, it is in vain to pretend to dispute him out of it, nor would I go about it. ... For myself, I find indeed I have a faculty of imagining,...perceived, and of variously compounding and dividing them, . . . [but] I cannot by any effort of thought conceive the abstract idea described above. . . . The... | |
 | Warner Brown - Difference (Psychology). - 1910 - 396 pages
...ideas, they can best tell; for myself I dare be confident I have it not. I find indeed I have indeed a faculty of imagining, or representing to myself,...of variously compounding and dividing them. I can imagine a man with two heads, or the upper parts of a man joined to the body of a horse. I can consider... | |
 | University of California (1868-1952) - Psychology - 1910 - 414 pages
...ideas, they can best tell; for myself I dare be confident I have it not. I find indeed I have indeed a faculty of imagining, or representing to myself,...of variously compounding and dividing them. I can imagine a man with two heads, or the upper parts of a man joined to the body of a horse. I can consider... | |
 | John Pickett Turner - Idealism - 1910 - 148 pages
...understands by abstraction, he declares with characteristic frankness and vigor; "Whether others hare this wonderful faculty of abstracting their ideas, they best can tell. For myself, I find I have indeed a faculty of imagining, or representing to myself, the idea of those particular things... | |
 | Stephen Southric Hebberd - Ontology - 1911 - 232 pages
...described as the fallacy of resemblance. This is clearly evinced in Berkeley's well-known avowal : "I find indeed I have a faculty of imagining or representing...of variously compounding and dividing them. I can imagine a man with two heads. ... I can consider the hand, the eye, the nose each by itself abstracted... | |
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