| James Seth - 1912 - 404 sidor
...difficult to recognise in his simple words the essential message of later idealism. ' Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only...to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose... | |
| George Stuart Fullerton - 1912 - 326 sidor
...hoard maxims and bow down before the wisdom of the fathers. " Some truths there are," he tells us,4 "so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only...to see them. Such I take this important one to be, namely, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose... | |
| Lewis White Beck - 1966 - 332 sidor
...thing or object distinct from the sensation or perception of it. <I C. SPIRIT 6. Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only...to see them. Such I take this important one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose... | |
| Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton - 1094 sidor
...find unanswerable arguments in that doctrine. [ 161 ] " Some truths there are," says Berke. ley, " so near and obvious to the mind, that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such," he adds, " I take this important one to be, that all the choir of heaven, and furniture of the earth—... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1983 - 448 sidor
...would easily find unanswerable arguments in that doctrine. "Some truths there are," says Berkeley, "so near and obvious to the mind, that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such," he adds, "I take this important one to be, that all the choir of heaven, and furniture of the earth... | |
| Jorge Luis Borges - 1964 - 496 sidor
...without the mind . . ." In another paragraph, number six, he had already declared: "Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind, that a man need only...to see them. Such I take this important one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose... | |
| H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 sidor
...1710, however, Berkeley had declared sharply in his Principles of Human Knowledge Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only...to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose... | |
| Peter Walmsley - 1990 - 236 sidor
...esse is percipi might also be appreciated by an act of intuitive apprehension: Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind, that a man need only 3 In pitting 'dry' against 'copious' exposition in entry 163 of the notebooks, Berkeley may be invoking... | |
| Brian Beakley, Peter Ludlow - 1992 - 460 sidor
...sensation are the same thing, and cannot therefore be abstracted from each other.] Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only...to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose... | |
| Carl Avren Levenson, Jonathan Westphal - 1994 - 218 sidor
...sensible thing or object distinct from the sensation or perception of it. 6. Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind, that a man need only...to see them. Such I take this important one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose... | |
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