...vanish, die. Bishop Berkeley, in Principles of Human Knowledge (1710), cutely and acutely observed: "We have first raised a dust, and then complain we cannot see." Gk thuos: incense, thyme: to cause to smoke; used in sacrifices, thurible, thurifer. thymus (resembles...

...inclined to think that the greater part, it not all, of those ditficulties which heve hitherto emused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselves - that we heve first of all raised up a dust and then complain that we cannot sea', Not to...

...Selbstbewusstseinsargumentation. Bischof Berkeleys Feststellung ist auch dafür der wohl treffendste Kommentar: „Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, ofthose difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge,...

...for that knowledge, which He had placed quite out of their reach." "Upon the whole," he concludes, "I am inclined to think that the far greater part,...blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see." Berkeley expands on...

...OUR PAIN is self-inflicted? How much of our confusion is our own doing? As George Berkeley remarks, "We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see." The midrash offers a kindred insight. The Rabbis tell us that when iron was created the trees began...

...think that most of the obstructions to knowledge were entirely due to the philosophers themselves: 'we have first raised a dust, and then complain we cannot see' (Principles, sec. III). The burden of the three critical papers in this volume is that we anthropologists...

...confusion. George Berkeley's famous diagnosis of philosophers' troubles applies here very well: 33 Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far...blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselves - that we have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. (Berkeley 1996: 8) Let...

...thought to be the obscurity of things, or the natural weakness and imperfection of our understandings. Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far...blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselves - that we have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. It is the nature of the...

...memorable metaphor to say that philosophers are to blame for the difficulties blocking their progress: "we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see" (1 3). This memorable metaphor is peripheral to Berkeley's core philosophical claims, so it need not...

...underpins our experiences, Berkeley argues that the confusions which resulted lead only to scepticism. '[W]e have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.' Berkeley hopes to return us to clear thinking by eliminating some of the dust, namely, the notion of...