...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...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 easy than for any one to...

...earliest knowledge is conversant about ", 'Book iv. ch. vii. sect. 9. If any man has the faculty .ef .framing in his mind such an idea of a triangle as...he.re described, it is in vain to pretend to dispute "hi™ °'ut of it, nor would I go about it. All I desire 4s, that the reader would fully and certainly...

...Middle Ages (see NOMINALISM), but Berkeley's statement of the position gave it its classical expression. "If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind such an idea of a triangle," as had been described by Locke, a triangle "neither oblique nor rectangular, neither equilateral, equicrural,...

...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...

...thing, so Berkeley finds in himself no such abstract idea, no triangle, neither scalene nor isosceles. If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind...to dispute him out of it, nor would I go about it. (sec. 13, my italics) Why does Berkeley decline to argue? Because he accepts thesis (2) of the doctrine...

...general idea of a triangle, he suggests an alternative way in which his generalization can be supported: All I desire is, that the 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 easy than for any one to...

...faculty of framing in his Mind such on Idea of a Triangle as is hero described, it is in vain to protend to dispute him out of it, nor would I go about it. All I desire is, that the reader would full)' and certainly inform himself, whether ho has such an Idea or no" (sect. xiii.). The sense in...

...keeping up such philosophic disputes as that of Berkeley with Locke over abstract ideas. Locke had spoken of our possessing 'the general idea of a triangle'...certainly inform himself whether he has such an idea or no.6 Until very recent years it was supposed by all philosophers that there was a typical human mind...

...abstraction, Berkeley challenges the reader to frame the abstract general idea of a Lockean triangle: If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind...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 easy than for any one to...

...exactly the same grounds that Titchener challenged Külpe: personal experience based on introspection. If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind...inform himself whether he has such an idea or no. And this, methinks, can be no hard task for anyone to perform. What more easy than for anyone to look...