Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 11. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 511
... Ideas . 90 Names and ideas often afed as mere tigns . * tion and general Ideas . Of Abftrac dual ; man , beuft , bird , are specific terms , denoting each rectilineal triangles , and on that account be denomiOf Abstrac a whole ' pecies ...
... Ideas . 90 Names and ideas often afed as mere tigns . * tion and general Ideas . Of Abftrac dual ; man , beuft , bird , are specific terms , denoting each rectilineal triangles , and on that account be denomiOf Abstrac a whole ' pecies ...
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... Ideas . rent objects , in diftinguishing between the fenfations he will appear to diflinguish between the objects themselves . In a fhort time , however , he acquires , by the following procefs , fome inaccurate notions of distance . He ...
... Ideas . rent objects , in diftinguishing between the fenfations he will appear to diflinguish between the objects themselves . In a fhort time , however , he acquires , by the following procefs , fome inaccurate notions of distance . He ...
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... idea of unity before that of many ; and that it is by repeating the simple idea of unity in our own minds that we come by the complex ideas of two , three , & c . " In this opinion he is joined by Pere Buffier * ; who obferves that it ...
... idea of unity before that of many ; and that it is by repeating the simple idea of unity in our own minds that we come by the complex ideas of two , three , & c . " In this opinion he is joined by Pere Buffier * ; who obferves that it ...
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alfo alſo animalcule antimony appear arfenic becauſe body brafs cafe calcination called caufe cauſe colour confequence confiderable confifts copper Cortes diftinct diſcovered diſtance divifions earth exiftence exiſtence extenfion faid fame fays fcrew fecond feems feen fenfation fenfe fent feparated feven feveral fhall fhould fide filver fimilar fimple fingle firft firſt fituation fize flider fmall folar folid fome fomething fometimes foon fore ftate ftill ftones fubftance fubject fuch fufficient fufion fulphur fuppofe furnace fyftem glafs himſelf ideas impoffible inches inftance inftrument iron itſelf kind laft lefs likewife litharge magnifier matter meaſure metals Mexicans Mexico micrometer microſcope mind moft Montezuma moſt motion muft muſt nature neceffary obferved object occafion paffing pelvis perceive perception perfon philofophers poffible pofition prefent purpoſe pyrites quantity reafon refemblance refpect reft ſmall ſome ſpace Spaniards thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion tube uſed uterus veffel