...equated knowing and imagining and general ideas with general descriptions. Then he mockingly retorted: If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind...an idea of a triangle as is here described, it is vain to pretend to dispute him out of it, nor would I go about it. All I desire is that the reader...

...any man has the faculty of framing in his mind such an idea of a triangle as is here described, it is vain to pretend to dispute him out of it. nor would I go about it. All 1 desire is that the reader would fully and certainly inform himself whether he has such an idea or...

...cannot exist, an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together. 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 look a little into his own thoughts, and there...

...equilateraL equicruraL nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once. Berkeley responds: 14, 7, 9) lf any man has the faculty of framing in his mind such...vain to pretend to dispute him out of it, nor would l go about it. All l desire is, that the reader would fully and certainly inform himself whether he...

...predicationally incomplete. Thus, in A Treatise on the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710), Berkeley states: 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...

...in the lurch. If the author of this book were involved in a discussion, he would side with Berkeley: "If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind such an idea ... it is in vain to pretend to dispute him out of it, nor would I go about it. All I desire is that...

...wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.2 Berkeley then retorts: If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind...an idea of a triangle as is here described, it is vain to pretend to dispute him out of it, nor would I go about it. All I desire is, that the reader...

...acquainted with, nor such as its earliest knowledge is conversant about.— Bk. IV, Ch. 7, sect. 9. If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind...triangle as is here described, it is in vain to pretend v to dispute him out of it, nor would I go about it. All I desire is that the reader would fully and...

...imagine without particularity,2 1 ibid., IV.vii.9. and for Locke's triangle he had very strong language: If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind...pretend to dispute him out of it, nor would I go about it.1 Berkeley's contention that images were necessarily highly specific found strong assent from others....

...neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once." Berkeley says : " II any man has the faculty of framing in his mind such...here described, it is in vain to pretend to dispute Mm out of it, nor would I go about it. All I desire is that the reader would fully and certainly inform...