...alleged abstract ideas cannot be performed. About their putative abstract idea of man, he says, "I cannot by any effort of thought conceive the abstract idea above described"; and, with regard to the proposed separation of qualities in an object, he says, "It is equally impossible...

...imagine, it must have some particular shape or colour. Likewise, the idea of a man that I frame to myself must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny;...crooked; a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man." I believe every man will find in himself what this ingenious author (bund — that he cannot imagine...

...because any character we think of will be some particular character, any idea of a man we form will be 'either of a white or a black or a tawny, a straight or a crooked, a tall or a low or a middle-sized man'.2 But, Anderson argues -in line with his criticism of the conception of the absolutely simple...

...to what he took to be the view of John Locke, Berkeley said: "The idea of man that 1 frame to myself must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny,...crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man. I cannot by any effort of thought conceive the abstract idea" of a man who is "neither white, nor black,...

...and he definitely did not think they were identical. He said, "The idea of man that I frame to myself must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny,...crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middlesized man."" How could such instances be identical? My response, as I have stated in the introduction to this book,...

...every idea is an idea of the presence or absence of every quality. As Berkeley says, my idea of a man "must be either of a white or a black or a tawny,...a crooked, a tall or a low or a middle-sized man." Accordingly, it is obvious that one of the difficulties in the way of these philosophers is to explain...

...or separated from some particular shape and colour. Likewise the idea of man that I frame to myself must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny,...crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man. I cannot by any effort of thought conceive the abstract idea. [p. 7] And yet, the concept of "consciousness,"...

...imagine, it must have some particular shape and colour. Likewise the idea of man that I frame to myself, must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny,...crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man. I cannot by any effort of thought conceive the abstract idea above described. And it is equally impossible...

...difficulty in refuting Locke's position when it is so understood. 'The idea of man that I frame to myself must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny,...crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man. I cannot by any effort of thought conceive the abstract idea above described.'1 1 cannot, that is to...

...imagine, it must have some particular shape and colour. Likewise the idea of man that I frame to myself must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny, a straight, or croocked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man." Thus we think only of the particular and not of...