 | George Berkeley, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay - 1922 - 303mga pahina
...The vulgar opinion involves a contradiction. — It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word...an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world ; yet whoever shall find in his heart to call it in question, may,... | |
 | Antony Flew - 1984 - 380mga pahina
...qualities Locke calls "primary", or of positing a material substratum underlying qualities. Even the notion that "houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all...natural or real, distinct from their being perceived" will, Berkeley suggests, "be found at bottom to depend on the doctrine of abstract ideas'' (Principles... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 380mga pahina
...ist ihm nur als Zustand seines Geistes gegeben: It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word...an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world, yet whoever shall find in his heart to call it in question may, if... | |
 | Howard Selsam, Harry Martel - 1987 - 384mga pahina
...quoted in textbooks on the history of philosophy). "It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word...distinct from their being perceived by the understanding" (§ 4). This opinion is a "manifest contradiction," says Berkeley. "For, what are the aforementioned... | |
 | M. A. Stewart - 1991 - 328mga pahina
...interpretation, for in Principles,, 4, he writes: "It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word...an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world ; yet whoever shall find in his heart to call it in question, may,... | |
 | William Gass - 1991 - 91mga pahina
...common sense and to the experience of ordinary men. Yet It is an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word...distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. No one betrays perception more promptly than the empiricist. First he appeals to common sense, which... | |
 | Brian Beakley, Peter Ludlow - 1992 - 433mga pahina
...minds or thinking things which perceive them. It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word...an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world, yet whoever shall find in his heart to call it in question may, if... | |
 | Carl Levenson, Jonathan Westphal - 1994 - 182mga pahina
...thinking things which perceive them. 4. It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, diat houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible...an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world; yet whoever shall find in his heart to call it in question, may, if... | |
 | Yuval Stienitz - 1994 - 120mga pahina
...Berkeley's book that express this unusual view: It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and, in a word,...their being perceived by the understanding. . . . But though it were possible that solid, figured, moveable substances may exist without the mind, corresponding... | |
 | Daniel N. Robinson - 1995 - 392mga pahina
An Intellectual History of Psychology, already a classic in its field, is now available in a concise new third edition. It presents psychological ideas as part of a greater web ... | |
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It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real ', distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. 
