 A NAME is a word taken at pleasure to serve for a mark, which may raise in our mind a thought like to some thought we had before, and which being pronounced to others, may be to them a sign of what thought the speaker had, or had not before in his mind.  Medical Times and Gazette - Página 551868Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 568 páginas
...others what we remember ourselves, and, therefore, I will define it thus : PART i. 4. A NAME is « word taken at pleasure to serve - — ' — - for a mark, which may raise in our mind a thought Definition life fo some thought we had before, and which of a Name. , , , , being pronounced to others,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1851 - 530 páginas
...course which a logician can reasonably adopt. CHAPTER II. OF NAMES. § 1. "A NAME," says Hobbes,* " is a word taken at pleasure to serve for a mark, which...had before, and which being pronounced to others, maybe to them a sign of what thought the speaker hadf before in his mind." This simple definition of... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 páginas
...conceived to exist. Hence we see how it can form the subject of a proposition. "A name," says Hobbes, " is a word taken at pleasure, to serve for a mark,...may raise in our mind a thought like to some thought such as we had before, and which being pronounced to others, may be to them a sign of what thought... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1852 - 640 páginas
...II. OF NAMES. ^ 1. "A NAME, says Hobbes,* " is a word taken at pleasure to serve for a mark, whicb may raise in our mind a thought like to some thought...may be to them a sign of what thought the speaker hadt before in his mind." This simple definition of a name, as a word (or set of words) serving the... | |
 | 1852 - 978 páginas
...taken ssjgm to express what passes in their minds" — by Hobbes, as that " which may raise in nor miad a thought like to some thought we had before, and which being pronounced to staers, nay be to them a sign of what thought the speaker had or had not before in his ajai"— and... | |
 | Euclid - 1853 - 176 páginas
...that that meaning should be perfectly known and understood. Hobbes has rightly defined a name to be " a word taken at pleasure to serve for a mark, which...may raise in our mind a thought like to some thought which we had before, and which being pronounced to others, may be to them a sign of what thought the... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 páginas
...conceived to exist. Hence we see how it can form the subject of a proposition. " A name," says HOBBES, " is a word taken at pleasure, to serve for a mark,...may raise in our mind a thought like to some thought such as we had before, and which, being pronounced to others, may be to them a sign of what thought... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 666 páginas
...a course which a logician can reasonably adopt. CHAPTER II. OP NAMES. ) 1. "A NAME, says Hobbes,* " is a word taken at pleasure to serve for a mark, which...in our mind a thought like to some thought we had beforej and which being pronounced to others, may be to them a sign of what thought the speaker hadt... | |
 | David Williams (of Great Harwood.) - 1859 - 140 páginas
...same definition may be applied to a symbol, which Hobbes has applied to a name, viz. an image, or " a word taken at pleasure to serve for a mark, which...thought we had before, and which being pronounced," expressed, or represented, " to others, may be to them a sign of what thought the speaker had, or had... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1866 - 118 páginas
...names of the other, the value of definition, which fixes the import of names, is apparent. ' A. name 5s a word taken at pleasure to serve for a mark, which may raise in onr mind a thought like to some thought we had before, and which being pronounced to others, may be... | |
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