 Whether others have this wonderful faculty of abstracting their ideas they best can tell : for myself, I find indeed I have a faculty of imagining, or representing to myself the ideas of those particular things I have perceived, and of variously compounding...  Mediation: The Function of Thought - Page 158by Henrietta Sullivan - 1871 - 213 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Berman - Philosophy - 2005 - 246 pages
...best can tell: for my self I find indeed I have a faculty of imagining, or representing to my self the ideas of those particular things I have perceived...of variously compounding and dividing them. I can imagine a man with two heads or the upper parts of a manjoined to the body of a horse. I can consider... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...distinguishes colours and makes an idea of colour in abstract which is neither red, nor blue, nor white. I find indeed I have a faculty of imagining or representing to myself the ideas of things I have perceived, and of variously compounding and dividing them. I can imagine a man with two... | |
 | George Berkeley - Philosophy - 2005 - 133 pages
...nor creeping; it is nevertheless a motion, but what that motion is it is not easy to conceive, 10. Whether others have this wonderful faculty of abstracting their ideas, they best can tell; for myself 1 I Snd indeed I have a faculty of imagining, or representing to myself, the ideas of those particular... | |
 | David Berman - Philosophy - 2005 - 246 pages
...that evidence in Berkeley's account of imaging in section 10 of the Introduction to the Principles: Whether others have this wonderful faculty of abstracting their ideas, they best can tell: for my self I find indeed I have a faculty of imagining, or representing to my self the ideas of those... | |
 | Charles A. Cramer - Art - 2006 - 196 pages
...stature nor low stature, nor yet middle stature, but something abstracted from all of these. And so of the rest. . . . Whether others have this wonderful faculty of abstracting their ideas, they best can tell.9 How can the general idea simultaneously represent no particular quality — no particular color,... | |
 | John Russell Roberts - Philosophy - 2007 - 200 pages
...as Berkeley would later argue, Locke's own method exposes abstract ideas for the chimeras they are. Whether others have this wonderful faculty of abstracting...of variously compounding and dividing them. I can imagine a man with two heads, or the upper parts of a man joined to the body of a horse. I can consider... | |
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