...earliest knowledge is conversant about.' — B. IV. ch. 7. § 9. If any man has the faculty of framing iu his mind such an idea of a triangle as is here described,...inform himself whether he has such an idea or no. g, is connected with their concept by an arbitrary association — for the name — spoken or written...

...bei Besprechung dieser Stelle, dafs überhaupt dergleichen allgemeine Vorstellungen unmöglich seien: If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind such an idea of a triangle äs is here described, it is in vain to pretend to dispute him out of it, nor would I go about it....

...possibility of such general ideas, and declined 'to even dispute with any man who pretends to have the faculty of framing in his mind such an idea of a triangle.' (Works, vol. ip 146.) After showing that the process of abstraction, as described by philosophers,...

...possibility of such general ideas, and declined " to even dispute with any man who pretends to have the faculty of framing in his mind such an idea of a triangle." (Works, vol. ip 146.) 1 Essay concerning Human Understanding, ir. 7, 9. After showing that the process...

...' which " must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once." Berkeley says: " If...inform himself whether he has such an idea or no." Until very recent years it was supposed by philosophers that there was a typical human mind which all...

...about. * With this idea Bishop Berkeley makes himself particularly merry. '' If any man," says he,'' has the faculty of framing in his mind such an idea...certainly inform himself, whether he has such an idea or not. And this, methinks, can be no hard task for any one to perform. What more easy than for any one...

...principles * With this idea Bishop Berkeley makes himself particularly merry. "If any man," says he, " has the faculty of framing in his mind such an idea...him out of it, nor would I go about it. All I desire i&, that the reader would fully and certainly inform himself, whether he has such an idea or not. And...

...' which " must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once." Berkeley says : "...reader would fully and certainly inform himself whether lie has such an idea or no." Until very recent years it was supposed by philosophers that there was...

...easily acquainted with, nor such as its earliest knowledge is conversant about."—B. iv. ch. 7. s. 9. If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind...inform himself whether he has such an idea or no. And this, methinks, can be no hard task for anyone to perform. What more easy than for anyone to look...

...ranks only after Hume in the subtlety of his metaphysical thought, criticises Locke in these terms : " If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind...inform himself whether he has such an idea or no. . . . The idea of ' man ' that I frame to myself must be either of a white or a black or a tawny, a...