Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind: To which are Added, An Essay on Quantity, and An Analysis of Aristotle's Logic ...T. Tegg, 1827 - 676 pages |
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Page 71 - ... that there should be an exact resemblance between the traces and the things represented by them, any more than that words or signs should be exactly like the things signified by them.