 | Herbert Spencer - 1882 - 722 pages
...not exist in the mind the idea of an eye and of the function of an eye. If, as Berkeley says, it is " impossible for me to form the abstract idea of motion distinct from the body moving;" then with no less certainty may I say that it is impossible for me to form the abstract idea of sight... | |
 | Edward John Hamilton - 1883 - 740 pages
...nominalism may be turned against itself. Berkeley says, " The idea of a man that I frame to myself) must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny, a straight...crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man"; which language can only mean that our idea of a man must be the idea either of a white, or a black,... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1883 - 714 pages
...think of, are individual. Bishop Berkeley insists : " The idea of man that I frame to myself must be either of a white, or a black or a tawny, a straight or a crooked, a tail, or a low or a middle-sized man ; " plainly implying that we can form no other thought of man,... | |
 | George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1884 - 436 pages
...must have some particular shape and colour. Likewise the idea of man that I frame to myself must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny, a straight,...middle-sized man. I cannot by any effort of thought conceive 1 the abstract idea above described.—And it is equally impossible for me to form the abstract idea... | |
 | James McCosh - 1884 - 96 pages
...AND GENERAL IDEAS. 57 that I frame to myself, must be either of a white, or a Mack, or a tawny, or a straight, or a crooked, a tall or a low, or a middle-sized man '' (I., 142). Here, as in so many other cases, he has sharpness enough to detect the errors of the prevailing... | |
 | Edward John Hamilton - 1886 - 708 pages
...nominalism may be turned against itself. Berkeley says: "The idea of a man that I frame to myself must be either of a white or a black or a tawny, a straight...a crooked, a tall or a low or a middle-sized, man; " which language can only mean that our idea of a man must be the idea either of a white or a black... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1886 - 716 pages
...must have some particular shape and color. Likewise the idem of man that I frame to myself, must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny, a straight or a crooked, л tall, nr a low, or a middle-nizod тип But I deny that I can abstract one from another 01 conceive... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 738 pages
...colour. Likewise the idea of man that I frame to myself must be either of a white, or 1 Lc iii. 6, 39. a black, or a tawny, a straight, or a crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man.' In all this Berkeley is perfectly right ; and though in his manner of accounting for the origin of... | |
 | James McCosh - 1887 - 348 pages
...146). " The idea of a man that I frame to myself, must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny, or a straight, or a crooked, a tall or a low, or a middle-sized man " (I., 142). Here, as in so many other cases, he has sharpness enough to detect the errors of the prevailing... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 362 pages
...Introd. to Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, ed. Fraser, vol. ip 142, and p. 158. tawny, a straight, or a crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man." In all this Berkeley is perfectly right ; and though in his manner of accounting for the origin of... | |
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Likewise the idea of man that I frame to myself must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny, a straight, or a crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man. 
