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Example sentences for "general idea"

  • They merely give the owner a general idea as to what to expect.

  • A thumb rule for calculating the cost of plate glass, which is not strictly accurate but which gives a general idea, is to calculate on from fifty to seventy-five cents per square foot.

  • We are not without the means of getting a general idea of its character.

  • From the various direct and indirect references in St. Paul's Epistles we can form a general idea of the life and teaching of Jesus, as it must have been accepted by the Churches to which he wrote.

  • This cut gives a general idea of the ruins from the west.

  • In the absence of cuts, we can not do more than give a general idea of these ruins.

  • C----had learned a general idea of grammar in conversation, in the manner which we have described.

  • We need not, however, be in any hurry to teach our pupil the names of the cases; technical grammar may be easily learned, after a general idea of rational grammar has been obtained.

  • According to this usage, the term “abstract idea” is practically synonymous with the term “general idea.

  • Clearly it depends on whether we hold it essential to an abstract or general idea that it should be incarnate as a word.

  • And then he stood away a little, eyeing him from the side, and taking in a general idea of the form and make of the whole.

  • She had spoken to Fanny on this very subject--not fearing for her son, but with a general idea of the impropriety of intimacies between such girls as Lucy and such men as Lord Lufton, and then Fanny had agreed with her.

  • Or, we may form a concept of Napoleon Bonaparte, by combining his several qualities and properties and thus form a general idea of the man.

  • Conception or Generalization is that faculty of the Mind by which it forms and groups together several particular ideas in the form of a general idea.

  • From these combined processes we form a Concept, or general idea of the class of things to which the particular things belong.

  • Judgment is also used in forming a concept, in the first place, for we must compare qualities before we can form a general idea.

  • I shall now endeavour to explain what is included in what I have called for distinction sake, the second general idea of form, in a much fuller manner than was done in Chapter I, of Fitness.

  • Secondly, that general idea, now to be discussed, which we commonly have of form altogether, as arising chiefly from a fitness to some design'd purpose or use.

  • Brumoi is very much to be commended for having taken care, in giving a general idea of Aristophanes’s writings, to throw a veil over those parts of them that might have given offence to modesty.

  • This is a general idea of the nature and effects of this river, so famous among the ancients.

  • The predicate thinking is the expression of a general idea, comprehending not only all thought, but also all phenomena which immediately affect the mind.

  • But this reality is sterile unless offered to the mind under a general idea; for it is evident that the soul does not come from one single act, since it is unity, the subject of plurality.

  • It is evident that a series of pure sensations cannot produce a general idea.

  • When we suppress this basis, by abstracting it, we retain nothing of body beyond a general idea of being or substance without any thing to characterize it, or to distinguish it from others.

  • Such is my general idea of the preceding plate;[144] there may be those who will discover many things which I do not see, and which possibly never entered into the contemplation of the artist.

  • I think the view which I have been advocating, to the effect that a general idea is distinguished from a vague one by the presence of a judgment, is also that intended by Ribot when he says (op.

  • I am inclined to think that it consists merely in the knowledge that no one individual is represented, so that what distinguishes a general idea from a vague idea is merely the presence of a certain accompanying belief.

  • An image may thus come to fulfil the function of a general idea.

  • The phrases have to a considerable extent acquired their own meaning, so that even one who is not familiar with the Scriptures is not likely to have difficulty in getting from them a general idea.

  • We require to have a general idea of the nature and aim of the whole in order to know what to look for.

  • This gives a general idea of his principle.

  • The generalization of a class is not, as the conceptual logic assumes, the abstraction of a general idea, but an inference from the analogy of a whole individual thing, e.

  • For the same reason it is erroneous to confuse "all existing" with a general idea.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general idea" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    general attack; general average; general colour; general conceptions; general condition; general confession; general conversation; general counsel; general court; general discussion; general education; general expression; general impression; general massacre; general order; general paralysis; general peace; general return; general rule; general service; general system; general welfare; generally called; generally distributed; piercing glance; well kept