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" But say you, though the ideas themselves do not exist without the mind, yet there may be things like them whereof they are copies or resemblances, which things exist without the mind, in an unthinking substance. I answer, an idea can be like nothing but... "
The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an ...
by William Nicholson - 1809
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Biographical sketch

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pages
...resemblances, which things exist without the mind, in an unthinking substance. I answer, an idea can be like nothing but an idea, a colour or figure, can be like nothing but another colour or figure. If we look but never so little into our thoughts, we shall...
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Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Darstellung der ..., Volume 2, Part 2

Johann Eduard Erdmann - Philosophy, Modern - 1842 - 662 pages
...resemblances, which things exist without the mind in an unthinking substance. I answer: an idea can be like nothing but an idea, a colour or figure can be like nothing but another colour or figure. Principl. Sect. 8. p. 41. How then is it possible that things...
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The Universal review, Volume 1

1859 - 662 pages
...themselves are the copies, it may be enough to show, in the very words of Berkeley, that " an idea can be like nothing but an idea ; a colour or figure can be like nothing but another colour or another figure." * * * Again : " I ask whether those supposed originals...
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An Essay on the Origin of Language: Based on Modern Researches, and ...

Frederic William Farrar - Comparative linguistics - 1860 - 292 pages
...Such language, as Bp. Berkeley showed long ago, is a mere contradiction in terms ; for " an idea can be like nothing but an idea ; a colour or figure can be like nothing but another colour or figure. I appeal to any one whether it be sense to assert that a...
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The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte: Modern philosophy

George Henry Lewes - Philosophy - 1867 - 692 pages
...resemblances, which things exist without the mind in an unthinking substance. I answer, an idea can be like nothing but an idea; a colour or figure can be like nothing but another colour or figure. Again, I ask whether those supposed originals or external...
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The Works of George Berkeley: Philosophical works

George Berkeley - 1871 - 478 pages
...resemblances, which things exist without the mind in an unthinking substance'9. I answer, an idea can be like nothing but an idea; a colour or figure can be like nothing but another colour or figure. If we look but never so little into our thoughts, we shall...
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The pure philosophical works

George Berkeley - 1871 - 478 pages
...resemblances, which things exist without the mind in an unthinking substance1 9. I answer, an idea can be like nothing but an idea; a colour or figure can be like nothing but another colour or figure. If we look but never so little into our thoughts, we shall...
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Idealism: An Essay, Metaphysical and Critical

William Graham - Idealism - 1872 - 246 pages
...cause. And Berkeley's argument against representationigm answers the other view. For " an idea can be like nothing but an idea ; a colour or figure can be like nothing but another colour or figure." (Principles, ยง 8.) By idea Berkeley means sensation, and...
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The Elements of the Psychology of Cognition

Robert Jardine - Consciousness - 1874 - 338 pages
...resemblances, which things exist without the mind in an unthinking substance. I answer, an idea can be like nothing but an idea ; a colour or figure can be like nothing but another colour or figure Again, I ask, whether those supposed original or external...
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The Principles of Human Knowledge, Being Berkeley's Celebrated Treatise on ...

George Berkeley - Idealism - 1878 - 318 pages
...resemblances, which things exist without the mind, in an unthinking substance. I answer, an idea can be like nothing but an idea ; a colour or figure can be like nothing but another colour or figure. If we look but ever so little into our thoughts, we shall...
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