 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.  The Science-history of the Universe - Page 80by Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909Full view - About this book
 | Mary Whiton Calkins - 1910 - 618 pages
...is, therefore, an 'idea.' In Berkeley's own words: — "It is an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word...an existence, natural or real, distinct from their beingperceived by the understanding. But with how great an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle... | |
 | William McDougall - 1911 - 414 pages
...whereby they are perceived — for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived." 2 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Merrill - 1911 - 154 pages
...Knowledge, for instance, Berkeley had written : ' 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... | |
 | 1911 - 476 pages
...Knowledge, for instance, Berkeley had written: '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... | |
 | Mary Whiton Calkins - 1912 - 626 pages
...is, therefore, an 'idea.' In Berkeley's own words: — "It is an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word...an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained . . ., yet whoever shall find in his heart to call it in question, may . . . perceive... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - 1912 - 328 pages
...a mind can an idea exist ? "It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men," he writes,3 "that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all...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... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - 1912 - 328 pages
...mind can an idea exist ? { "It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men," he writes,8 "that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all...how great an assurance and acquiescence soever this prin- \ ciple may be entertained in the world, yet whoever shall find i in his heart to call it in... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 636 pages
...denying the distinction. The ideas are the things. ' It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word...from their being perceived by the understanding.' But the opinion needs only to be called in question to show the contradiction it involves ; for these objects... | |
 | Roy Balmer Liddy - 1914 - 156 pages
...come to be marked by one name and so to be reputed as one thing". 2 It is, however, says Berkeley, an opinion strangely prevailing among men, that houses,...from their being perceived by the understanding; but such an opinion involves a manifest contradiction, for all these objects are things we perceive by... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - 1916 - 308 pages
...(Principles of Human Knowledge, secs. 4 and 5) that it is "an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men that houses, mountains, rivers, and, in a word,...from their being perceived by the understanding." This is a correct description of what we have designated Natural Realism. Berkeley asserts, however,... | |
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