 | George Sotiros Pappas - 2000 - 300 ページ
...non-perceivers. He puts it this way: ... all the unthinking objects of the mind agree, in that they are entirely passive, and their existence consists only in being...being perceived, but in perceiving ideas and thinking. (Berkeley 1948-57, 2:105) Elsewhere he states a still more general principle, namely, that to be is... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 452 ページ
...by1 or exist in minds or spiritual substances.'2 Spirits, therefore, cannot be ideas or like ideas. 'It is therefore necessary, in order to prevent equivocation...and unlike, that we distinguish between spirit and idea.'3 'That this substance which supports or perceives ideas should itself be an idea or like an... | |
 | Nico Stehr, Reiner Grundmann - 2005 - 424 ページ
...same appellation. I answer, all the unthinking objects of the mind agree in that they are entirely passive, and their existence consists only in being...perceiving ideas and thinking. It is therefore necessary, knowledge to prevent equivocation and confounding natures perfectly disagreeing and unlike, that we... | |
 | Stephen Hartley Daniel - 2007 - 257 ページ
...is the mind having ideas. The very substance of a mind is that it is a thinking, perceiving thing: 'a soul or spirit is an active being, whose existence...being perceived, but in perceiving ideas and thinking' (PHK 139). Therefore, a mind must have thoughts to be active, which is the essence of the soul's existence.28... | |
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... ideas, no reason can be assigned why that which is signified by the name spirit or soul may not partake in the same appellation, I answer, all the unthinking objects of the mind agree in that they are entirely passive, and their existence consists... 
