...existence of matter/' "It is an opinion," he observes, in "The Principles of Human Knowledge," " strongly prevailing among men, that houses, mountains, rivers,...word, all sensible objects. have an existence natural, real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. What are the forementioned objects...

...existence of matter." "It is an opinion," he observes, in " The Principles of Human Knowledge," " strongly prevailing among men, that houses, mountains, rivers,...word, all sensible objects, have an existence natural, real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. What are the forementioned objects...

...was hardly ingenuous in him to assert that the vulgar were virtually on his side, after calling it " an opinion strangely prevailing among men, that houses,...from their being perceived by the understanding."* If the philosopher have the temerity to question the vulgar on this subject, can he extract from them...

...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 it in his heart to call it in question, may,...

...involves a contradiction. It is, indeed, an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, v mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects,...an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world, yet whoever shall find it in his heart to call it in question, may,...

...perception is a mere accident. As Berkeley puts it, it is " an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and, in a word,...from their being perceived by the understanding." It is in this external or spacial existence that the reality of things consists ; and any proposition...

...things," and, as we have said, cither is quite opposed to the other. Berkeley, for example. speaks of " an opinion strangely prevailing among men, that houses,...from their being perceived by the understanding." Here then, Berkeley opposes his own ideal things to the " natural or real" things which attach to the...

...sections of his Principles of Human Knowledge, that ' It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men that houses, mountains, rivers, and, in a word,...from their being perceived by the understanding.' This is striking a false key-note. It rouses the reader to oppose a coming paradox. Yet Berkeley foresaw...

...non-existence of material substances as such. He says, " It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and, in a word, all sensible objects, have an existence natural and real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. But with how great an assurance...

...or thinking things which perceive them. 4. ylt is indeed an opinion10 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...