"There croud into his mind the ideas which compose the visible man, in company with all the other ideas of sight perceived at the same time."
— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by Aaron Rhames
Date
1709
Metaphor
"There croud into his mind the ideas which compose the visible man, in company with all the other ideas of sight perceived at the same time."
Metaphor in Context
110 Hence it follows, that a man born blind, and afterwards, when grown up, made to see would not in the first act of vision parcel out the ideas of sight into the same distinct collections that others do, who have experienced which do regularly coexist and are proper to be bundled up together under one name. He would not, for example, make into one complex idea, and thereby esteem and unite, all those particular ideas, which constitute the visible head or foot. For there can be no reason assigned why he should do so, barely upon his seeing a man stand upright before him: There croud into his mind the ideas which compose the visible man, in company with all the other ideas of sight perceived at the same time: But all these ideas offered at once to his view, he would not distribute into sundry distinct combinations, till such time as by observing the motion of the parts of the man and other experiences, he comes to know which are to be separated, and which to be collected together.
(§110, p. 215)
(§110, p. 215)
Categories
Provenance
Past Masters
Citation
Past Masters electronic version of The Works of George Berkeley, Eds. T. E. Jessop and A. A. Luce, vol. I (Desirée Park: Thomas Nelson, 1979). <e-text of first edition edited by David R. Wilkins>
Date of Entry
02/18/2004
Date of Review
06/21/2011
