...eye, the nose, each by itself abstracted or separated from some particular shape and colour. Likewise the idea of man that I frame to myself must be either...crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man. I cannot by any effort of thought conceive the abstract idea. [p. 7] And yet, the concept of "consciousness,"...

...images, and he has, of course, no difficulty in refuting Locke's position when it is so understood. 'The idea of man that I frame to myself must be either...crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man. I cannot by any effort of thought conceive the abstract idea above described.'1 1 cannot, that is to...

.... .But then whatever hand or eye I imagine, it 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, or croocked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man." Thus we think only of the particular and not of...

...second, he identifies die power of abstracting or conceiving with the force of imagination: "Likewise the idea of man that I frame to myself must be either...crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man. I cannot by any effort of 20. Ibid., 2:229. 21. Ibid., 1:406. 22. Descartes, Meditationes de Prima...

...1710, Berkeley takes as an example his own inability to contemplate a suitably general idea of 'man': The idea of man that I frame to myself, must be either...crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man. I cannot by any effort of thought conceive the abstract idea above described. (Introduction, 10)5 Berkeley...

...whatever hand or eye I imagine, it must have some particular shape and color. Likewise the idea of a man that I frame to myself must be either of a white,...crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man. 20 If Berkeley is indeed denying the existence of any less than fully determinate images, then his...

...power of abstracting or conceiving with the force of imagination: "Likewise the idea of man that l frame to myself must be either of a white, or a black,...crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man. l cannot by any effort of no. lbid., a:2s9a1. lbid., 1:4o6. 22. Descartes, Meditatinnn de Prima Phthaophia,...

...nose I imagine they must have some particular shape & colour. The idea of man that I frame to my self must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny, a straight or a crooked, a tall or a low or a middling sized man. I cannot by any effort of imagination frame to my self an idea of man prescinding...

...George Berkeley. In attacking the notion of abstract ideas, Berkeley famously remarks, The idea of a man that I frame to myself must be either of a white,...crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man. I cannot by any effort of thought conceive the abstract idea above described (Principles of Human Knowledge,...

...seven trees and one copse. Berkeley's criticism takes a different form. 'The idea of man that I frame myself must be either of a white, or a black, or a...a crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middlesized man. I cannot by any effort of thought conceive the abstract idea.' Here, Berkeley's criticism shares the...