 | Thomas Reid - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 706
...not«*, I apprehend that the vwA faculty is most properly applied to those powers of the mind whtch arc original and natural, and which make a part of the...exercise or study, which are not called faculties, but habitt. There must be something in the constitution of the mind necessary to our being able to acquire... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 1080
...is most properly applied to those powers of the mind which are original and natural, and which male a part of the constitution of the mind. There are...exercise, or study, which are not called faculties, b.:t habits. There must be something in the constitution of the mind necessary to our being able to... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...faculties of the mind, and its powers, are often used as synonymous expressions. But as mostsynonymes have some minute distinction that deserves notice,...habits, and this is commonly called capacity.* 4. Subject and Object. — We frequently meet with a distinction, in writers upon this subject, between... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...which are original and natural, and which make a part of the constitution of the mind. There are oiher powers which are acquired by use, exercise, or study,...acquire habits, 'and this is commonly called capacity.* * These terme properly stand in the following relations : — powers are m-tiee and passive, natural... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...which implies its being merely passive. 3. Powers and Faculties of the Mind. — The words power wadi faculty, which are often used in speaking of the mind,...acquire habits, and this is commonly called capacity* 4. Subject and Object. — We frequently meet with a distinction, in writers upon this subject, between... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...I am silent. Every operation, therefore, implies power; but the power does not imply the operation. used as synonymous expressions. But as most synonymes...acquire habits, and this is commonly called capacity* 4. Subject and Object. — We frequently meet with a distinction, in writers upon this subject, between... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...silent. Every operation, therefore, implies power; but the power does not imply the operation. nsed as synonymous expressions. But as most synonymes have...acquire habits, and this is commonly called capacity* 4. Subject and Object. — We frequently meet with a distinction, in writers upon this subject, between... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...invented by philosophers, which implies its being merely passive. 3. Powers and Faculties of the Mind. — The words power and faculty, which are often used...habits, and this is commonly called capacity.* 4. Subject and Object. — We frequently meet with a distinction, in writers upon this subject, between... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 710
...is most properly applied to those powers of the mind which are original and natural, and which make part of the constitution of the mind. There are other...acquire habits, and this is commonly called capacity." Such are the distinct meanings which Dr. Reid would assign to these words, and these meanings are in... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 698
...is most properly applied to those powers of the mind which arc original and natural, and which make part of the constitution of the mind. There are other...which are not called faculties, but habits. There must bo something in the constitution of the mind necessary to our being able to acquire halits, and this... | |
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The faculties of the mind, and its powers, are often used as synonymous expressions. But as most synonymes have some minute distinction that deserves notice, I apprehend that the word faculty is most properly applied to those powers of the mind which... 
