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" But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational... "
An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works ... - Page 239
by John Locke - 1819
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Elements of Logic: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the ...

Richard Whately - Logic - 1843 - 372 pages
...reason; and that since the invention of syllogisms there is not one in ten thousand that doth. But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely...examine the grounds of syllogisms, as to see that in ahove threescore ways that three propositions may be laid together, there are but fourteen wherein...
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The North British Review, Volume 1

English literature - 1844 - 608 pages
...introduces a well-known passage from Locke, in which he says, that " God has not been so sparing to man, to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational," &c. But Locke says this upon the idea, that the Aristotelian system was erroneous. It is no answer...
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A Manual of Logic

Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Logic - 1849 - 184 pages
...how it is done. Locke merely says, with characteristic simplicity and plain English sense, " God hath not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged...creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational. He hath been more bountiful to mankind than so." course do not always appear in the forms of syllogism...
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Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding

JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - 786 pages
...reason; and that, since the invention of syllogisms, there is not one of ten thousand that doth. But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely...creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational; L e. those few of them that he could pet BO to examine the grounds of syllogisms as to see that in...
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The Works of John Locke: Philosophical Works, with a Preliminary ..., Volume 2

John Locke, James Augustus St. John - Language and languages - 1854 - 576 pages
...reason; and that, since the invention of syllogisms, there is not one of ten thousand that doth. But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely...the grounds of syllogisms, as to see that, in above three score ways, that three propositions may be laid together, there are but about fourteen wherein...
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Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on ...

John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...invention of syllogisms, there is not one of ten thousand that doth. But God has not been so sparing tr men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational, te those few of them that he could get so to examine the grounds of syllogisms, as to see, that in...
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Thought and Language: An Essay, Having in View the Revival, Correction, and ...

Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Thought and thinking - 1855 - 210 pages
...clearly persuaded that the Aristotelian syllogism was built on a delusion. " God," says he, " hath not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged...creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational: he hath been more bountiful to mankind than so." He saw there was a juggle somewhere, but he could...
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Thought and Language

Mrs. B. H. Smart - 1855 - 216 pages
...clearly persuaded that the Aristotelian syllogism was built on a delusion. " God," says he, " hath not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged...creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational: he hath been more bountiful to mankind than so." He saw there was a juggle somewhere, but he could...
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Abhandlungen der Philologisch-Historischen Classe der Königlich ..., Volume 4

History - 1865 - 700 pages
...God has not bcen so sparing to mcn to make them barely twolegged crealures and lefl it to Aristolle to make them rational ie those few of them that he...could get so to examine the grounds of syllogisms, äs to see, that in above threescore ways that Ihres propositions may be laid together, there are but...
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Manual of Elementary Logic

Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Logic - 1867 - 276 pages
...is Locke and guilty of such poor burlesque on this others refiltedhigh subject, as the following. " God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left to Aristotle to make them rational. . . . God has been more bountiful than so: He has given them a...
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