 | M. Glouberman - 1986 - 396 pages
...none) he can nevertheless cognise abstractly. Grant it he does: 'it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular; without...qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides. So far be may abstract' (Principles Introduction. 16). Berkeley doesn't see the acknowledgement as endangering... | |
 | R. D. Rollinger - 1993 - 214 pages
...Principles: "... here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as a triangle; without attending to the particular qualities of the...abstract, general, inconsistent idea of a triangle. In like manner we may consider Peter so far forth as man, or so far forth as animal, without framing... | |
 | Wayne Waxman - 2003 - 368 pages
...seems finally to have consented to call a spade a spade : And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular ; without...abstract general inconsistent idea of a triangle. In like manner we may consider Peter so far forth as man, or so far forth as animal, without framing... | |
 | Robert G. Muehlmann - 2010 - 281 pages
...Winkler, Berkeley: An Interpretation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 37-38. acknowledge that "a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without...qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides" (IN 16). Presumably, then, he would also allow that we can selectively attend to activity, that is,... | |
 | Allan Bäck - 1996 - 578 pages
...abstractive (or a restrictive essential) analysis. the scholastics, Berkeley still admits that "a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without...qualities of the angles or relations of the sides." In this way, by restricting or limiting the predicates of the subject, "we may consider Peter so forth... | |
 | William Bragg Ewald - 2005 - 696 pages
...demonstrated the proposition of the abstract idea of a triangle. |And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without...abstract general inconsistent idea of a triangle. In like manner we may consider Peter so far forth as man, or so far forth as animal, without framing... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 pages
...what is meant by abstraction, abstraction is obviously possible. 'It must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without...qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides. ... In like manner 1 P., Introduction, 11; n, p. 31. • Ibid., 12; n, p. 32. 'Ibid., 15; 11, pp. 33-4.... | |
 | C. J. McCracken, I. C. Tipton - 2000 - 314 pages
...attention in a way that one would think should be acceptable to Berkeley, who concedes "that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without...or relations of the sides. So far he may abstract." 16 Some argue that this is how Locke, too, conceives of abstraction. Be that as it may, there is no... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 452 pages
...what is meant by abstraction, abstraction is obviously possible. 'It must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without...qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides. ... In like manner 1 P., Introduction, n; H, p. 31. * Ibid., 12; n, p. 32. • Ibid.. 15; ii. pp. 33-4.... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 668 pages
...attention in his own account of general thinking. 'It must be acknowledged', he writes, 'that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without...abstract general inconsistent idea of a triangle' (Introduction to the Principles, §16, 35). Does Berkeley's criticism, then, leave everything as it... | |
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I demonstrated the proposition of the abstract idea of a triangle. [And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without attending to the particular qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides. So far... 
