Argument
Object (grammar)
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grammatical term; argument in a proposition
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First, As to the principle of individuation; we may observe, that the view of any one object is not sufficient to convey the idea of identity. For in that proposition, an object is the same with itself, if the idea expressed by the word, object, were no ways distinguished from that meant by itself; we really should mean nothing, nor would the proposition contain a predicate and a subject, which however are implyed…
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
names the idea; states what it is; opens on it
But recognition is that relation of the mind to nature which provides the material for the intellectual activity. An object is an ingredient in the character of some event. In fact the character of an event is nothing but the objects which are ingredient in it and the ways in which those objects make their ingression into the event.
Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
names the idea; a chapter is titled for it; states what it is; opens on it
We have been using the word Object. _Something must now be said about the proper use of the term Object in Psychology._ In popular parlance the word object is commonly taken without reference to the act of knowledge, and treated as synonymous with individual subject of existence. Thus if anyone ask what is the mind's object when you say 'Columbus discovered America in 1492,' most people will reply 'Columbus,' or…
William James, The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1
names the idea; states what it is; opens on it
196.] The want of stability in itself which allows the object to suffer violence, is possessed by it (see preceding §) only in so far as it has a certain stability. Now as the object is implicitly invested with the character of notion, the one of these characteristics is not merged into its other; but the object, through the negation of itself (its lack of independence), closes with itself, and not till it so…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
names the idea; a chapter is titled for it; states what it is; opens on it
But inquiries which are definite are all of them furnished with appropriate topics, as if they belonged to themselves, being divided into accusation and defence. And in them there are these kinds of argumentation. The accuser accuses a person of an act; the advocate for the defence opposes one of these excuses: either that the thing imputed has not been done; or that, if it has been done, it deserves to be called by…
Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
names the idea; states what it is
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