T 1.1.7.10
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Before those habits have become entirely perfect, perhaps the mind may not be content with forming the idea of only one individual, but may run over several, in order to make itself comprehend its own meaning, and the compass of that collection, which it intends to express by the general term. That we may fix the meaning of the word, figure, we may revolve in our mind the ideas of circles, squares, parallelograms, triangles of different sizes and proportions, and may not rest on one image or idea. However this may be, 'tis certain that we form the idea of individuals, whenever we use any general term; that we seldom or never can exhaust these individuals; and that those, which remain, are only represented by means of that habit, by which we recal them, whenever any present occasion requires it. This then is the nature of our abstract ideas and general terms; and 'tis after this manner we account for the foregoing paradox, that some ideas are particular in their nature, but general in their representation. A particular idea becomes general by being annex'd to a general term; that is, to a term, which from a customary conjunction has a relation to many other particular ideas, and readily recals them in the imagination.
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| Garrett 1981 | (T17-24) T 1.1.6.3 to T 1.1.7.17 (19 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …plying the term 'oneself'. This idea of oneself is obviously a "general or abstract idea" (T17-24), consisting, as suc… |
| Ainslie 2009 | T 1.1.7 T 1.1.7 (20 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …an is sometimes assumed. Most obviously, as Hume shows his treatment of general thoughts (T 1.1.7), our tendency to a… |
| Strawson 2011 | 1.1.7.2-14 T 1.1.7 (13 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …cu re,unclear,seee.g.33/1.2.3.1,162/1.3.14.14,648/Abs§7,78n/ 7.29n;imperfect,seee.g.18-23/1.1.7.2-14,222/1.4.3.8,77/7.29… |
| Pitson 2013 | SBN 21-22 T 1.1.7 (6 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …nd if it is impossible to assign any, this will serve to confirm our suspicion" (EHU 2.9; SBN 21-22). All this seems ha… |
| Cottrell 2015 | T 1.1.7.7-10 T 1.1.7 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … "abstract" or "general" representation that picks out all individuals of a certain kind (T 1.1.7.7-10; SBN 20-22). The ab… |