 | Frederick Beasley - Philosophy - 1822 - 584 pages
...absurdities? But to proceed with the Bishop. " It is indeed," says he, " an opinion strangely prevalent amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word, all sensible objects have an exi stence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding." (And who will... | |
 | 1826 - 434 pages
...possible they should have any existence out of the mind or thinking things which perceive them." " It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst...houses, mountains, rivers, and, in a word, all sensible objects,have an existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding.... | |
 | Theology - 1835 - 700 pages
...world as is commonly believed to exist, is absurd. " It is indeed an opinion strongly prevailing among men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and, in a word,...from their being perceived by the understanding." Principles of Human Knowledge, $ 4. " From what has been said, it follows, there is not any other substance... | |
 | Theology - 1838 - 428 pages
...hollow and glass shrill. Yet, as Berkeley remarks, " it is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing among men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word,...from their being perceived by the understanding." But ask of such a believer a reason for the faith that is in him. What is that matter, for the exbtence... | |
 | Alexander Duff - Hinduism - 1839 - 738 pages
...expose the fallacy of " the opinion strangely prevailing among men, that houses, mountains, rivers, &c., in a word, all sensible objects have an existence...distinct from their being perceived by the understanding ! " These, however, were only the whimsies and the reveries of fallible men. It remained for the sages... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Philosophy - 1842 - 388 pages
...hollow, and glass shrill. Yet, as Berkeley remarks, " it is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing among men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word,...from their being perceived by the understanding." But ask of such a believer a reason for the faith that is in him. What is that matter, for the existence... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Philosophy - 1842 - 388 pages
...hollow, and glass shrill. Yet, as Berkeley remarks, " it is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing among men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word,...from their being perceived by the understanding." But ask of such a believer a reason for the faith that is in him. What is that matter, for the existence... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Philosophers - 1853 - 282 pages
...ambiguity. Thus he says in one of the opening sections of his ' Principles of Human Knowledge,' that " It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men that houses, mountains, rivers, and, * Blackwood's Mag., June 1842, p. 814, art ' Berkeley and Idealism :' the best defence of Berkeley... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1854 - 560 pages
...it possible they should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them. It is, indeed, an opinion strangely prevailing amongst...from their being perceived by the understanding." (Principles of Human Knowledge, | 3 et seq. ) The language here employed Hounds so much like banter,... | |
 | Edward Tagart - Hume, David, 1711-1776 - 1855 - 530 pages
...sciences. " It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing among men," writes Berkeley, with amusing naivete, "that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all...from their being perceived by the understanding." " Is it not plainly repugnant that any one of these, or any combination of them, should exist unperceived... | |
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It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. 
