 ... we can exercise over the operations of our minds; the power, when a perception is present to our senses or a conception to our intellects, of attending to a part only of that perception or conception, instead of the whole. But we cannot conceive a...  The British Journal of Homoeopathy - Page 5521862Full view - About this book
 | Theology - 1856 - 984 pages
...intellects, of attending to a part of that perception or conception, instead of the whole. But we cannot conceive a line without breadth ; we can form no mental picture of such a line The peculiar accuracy, supposed to be characteristic of the first principles of geometry, thus appears... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1856 - 784 pages
...intellects, of attending to a part of that perception or conception, instead of the whole. But we cannot conceive a line without breadth ; we can form no mental picture of such a line. .... The peculiar accuracy, supposed to be characteristic of the first principles of geometry, thus... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Atheism - 1858 - 206 pages
...point I apprehend to be simply our idea of the smallest portion of surface which we can see We cannot conceive a line without breadth ; we can form no mental picture of such a line : all the lines which we have in our minds are lines possessing breadth. If any one doubts this, we may refer him to... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1859 - 508 pages
...outward experience." This doctrine, however, he maintains to be psychological^ incorrect; for " we cannot conceive a line without breadth; we can form no mental picture of such a line ; all the lines which we have in our minds are lines possessing breadth." " A line, as denned by geometers, is wholly... | |
 | John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - Homeopathy - 1862 - 992 pages
...Our idea of a point I apprehend to be our idea of the smallest portion of space we can see. We cannot conceive a line without breadth ; we can form no mental...held to be the parent of all speculation — is not d priori, and not one of its axioms can be shown to embody a necessary truth which is out and out independent... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1865 - 582 pages
...that perception or conception, instead of the whole. But we cannot conceive a line without bmulth ; we can form no mental picture of such a line : all the lines which we have in our minds are lines possessing breadth. If any one doubts this, we may refer him to... | |
 | James McCosh - 1866 - 424 pages
...one signification. He must use it in the sense of ' image' or ' picture' when he says, " We cannot conceive a line without breadth; we can " form no mental picture of such a line" (Logic, B. u. cv § 1). This is all true, but it is also true that we —can form an abstract notion... | |
 | Joseph Alden - Philosophy - 1866 - 326 pages
...pereeption or conception, instcad of the whole. But we cannot conccive of a line without brcadth; wo can form no mental picture of such a line: all the lines which we have in our minds are lines possessing brcadth. If any one doubts this, wo may refer him to... | |
 | Joseph Alden - Philosophy - 1867 - 312 pages
...attending to a part only of that perception or conception, instead of the whole. But we cannot conceive, of a line without breadth; we can form no mental picture of such a line : all the lines which we have in our minds are lines possessing breadth. If any one doubts this, we may refer him to... | |
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