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  • The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species.

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    Perfection   Different   Sculpture  
    William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.230

  • Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

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    Ancient   Virtue   Ethical  
    William Fleming (1858). “Vocabulary of Philosophy Psychological, Ethical, Metaphysical by William Fleming”, p.410

  • The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

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    Memories   Imagination   Perception  
    William Fleming (1857). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.264

  • Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

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    Men   Common Sense   Degrees  
    William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.95

  • Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.

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    Philosophy   Age   Currents  
    William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.409

  • Science is knowledge certain and evident in itself, or by the principles from which it is deducted, or with which it is certainly connected. It is subjective, as existing in the mind; objective, as embodied in truths; speculative, as leading to do something, as in practical science.

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    Science   Mind   Principles  
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William Fleming

  • Born: February 18, 1729
  • Died: August 5, 1795
  • Occupation: Former Virginia State Senator
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