 If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind such an idea of a triangle as is here described, it is in vain to pretend to dispute him out of it, nor would I go about it. All I desire is, that the reader would fully and certainly inform himself whether...  The Principles of Psychology - Page 49by William James - 1902Full view - About this book
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 514 pages
...easily acquainted with, nor such as its earliest knowledge is conversant about." B. iv. c.vii. sect. ix. If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind...would fully and 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... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 506 pages
...easily acquainted with, nor such as its earliest knowledge is conversant about." B. iv. c.vii. sect, ix. If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind...would fully and 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... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1843 - 556 pages
...acquainted with, nor such as its earliest knowledge is conversant about." Book iv. ch. vii. sect. 9. If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind...reader would fully and certainly inform himself whether he has such an idea or no. And this, methinks, can be no hard task for any one to perform. What more... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1843 - 542 pages
...acquainted with, nor such as its earliest knowledge is conversant about." Book iv. ch. vii. sect. 9. If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind...reader would fully and certainly inform himself whether he has such an idea or no. And this, methinks, can be no hard task for any one to perform. What more... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1843 - 548 pages
...acquainted with, nor such as its earliest knowledge is conversant about."- Book iv. ch. vii. sect. 9. If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind...reader would fully and certainly inform himself whether he has such an idea or no. And this, methinks, can be no hard task for any one to perform. What more... | |
 | John Locke, James Augustus St. John - 1854 - 576 pages
...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...would fully and 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... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - 1857 - 218 pages
...general name is fabricated. In the preceding quotation I have somewhat abridged the words of Locke. faculty of framing in his Mind such an Idea of a Triangle...would fully and certainly inform himself, whether he has such an Idea or no" (sect. xiii.). The sense in which Berkeley understood Locke's Abstract General... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - 1857 - 214 pages
...preceding quotation I have somewhat abridged the wordi of Locke. faculty of framing in his Mind Buch an Idea of a Triangle as is here described, it is...would fully and certainly inform himself, whether he has such an Idea or no" (sect. xiii.). The sense in which Berkeley understood Locke's Abstract General... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - 1892 - 1136 pages
...takes him to task over this description of the general idea of a triangle. "If any man," says he, ' ' has the faculty of framing in his mind such an idea of a triangle as is here described, it is vain to dispute him out of it, nor would I go about it. All I desire is that the reader would certainly... | |
 | Henrietta Sullivan - 1871 - 232 pages
...wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together." Berkeley replies : " If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind...reader would fully and certainly inform himself whether he has such an idea or not What more easy than for any one to look into his own thoughts, and there... | |
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