...further holds (i. 309), that it is a characteristic property of geometrical forms, that they are capable of being painted in the imagination with a distinctness equal to reality : — that our ideas of forms exactly resemble our sensations ; which, it is implied, is not the case...

...self-deception. He lays much stress on one of the characteristic properties of geometrical forms, their capacity of being painted in the imagination with...ideas of form to the sensations which suggest them n. But while it is impossible to deny the ability with which Mr. Mill combats the notion of an a priori...

...Mill attempts to reduce these concepts to mere generalizations from experience. He insists on " their capacity of being painted in the imagination with...our ideas of form to the sensations which suggest themf." This resemblance is so far from being implied in the mental distinctness of the geometrical...

...meaning of the words, he answers, " one of the characteristic properties of geometrical forms is their capacity of being painted in the imagination with a distinctness equal to reality." These mental pictures are "just as fit subjects of geometrical experimentation as the realities themselves."...

...conceive, be found, if we advert to one of the characteristic properties of geometrical forms— their capacity of being painted in the imagination with...place, enables us to make (at least with a little prac1 Cudworth, On Eternal and Immutable Morality, Book IV. chap. iii. § 9. tice,) mental pictures...

...conceive, be found, if w T e advert to one of the characteristic properties of geometrical forms—- their capacity of being painted in the imagination with...place, enables us to make (at least with a little prac1 Cudworthj On Eternal and Immutable Morality, Book iv. chap. iii. § 9. tice,) mental pictures...

...meaning of the words, he answers, " one of the characteristic properties of geometrical forms is their capacity of being painted in the imagination with a distinctness equal to reality/' These mental pictures are "just as fit subjects of geometrical experimentation as the realities themselves."...

...advert," says Mr. Stuart Mill,* " to one of the characteristic elements of geometrical forms — their capacity of being painted in the imagination with...which resemble the realities quite as well as any we could make upon paper ; and, in the next place, makes those pictures just as fit subjects of geometrical...

...self-deception. He lays much stress on one of the characteristic properties of geometrical forms, their capacity of being painted in the imagination with...our ideas of form to the sensations which suggest them.1 But'while it is impossible to deny the ability with which Mr. Mill combats the notion of an...

...stress on one of the characteristic properties of geometrical forms, their capacity of being pointed in the imagination with a distinctness equal to reality; in other words, the exaet resemblance of our ideas of form to the sensations which suggest them. 1 But while it is impossible...