...that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth,...frame of the world, have not any subsistence without mind ; that their being is, to be perceived or known ; that consequently so long as they are not actually...

...that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, namely, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth...not any subsistence without a mind, — that their being is to be perceived " — either by me or by some other sentient ego, if another exists. Accordingly,...

...that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth,...have not any subsistence without a mind, that their being is to be perceived or known; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by...

...for the nonreality of extrasensory existence. There he had said: All the choir of heaven and fumiture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose...not any subsistence without a mind — that their being is to be perceived or known ... let anyone consider those arguments which are thought manifestly...

...of primary qualities. He denied any material reality independent of perception or knowledge of it: "all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of...the world, have not any subsistence without a mind, . . . their being is to be perceived" (p. 78, no. 6). Berkeley's idealism was advanced as an argument...

...thought. As he puts it in the Principles of Human Knowledge, section 6: all the choir of heaven and the furniture of the earth, in a word, all those bodies...compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any substance without a mind . . . their being is to be perceived or known. As is clear from the last sentence...

...important one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth which compose this mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind, that there being is to be perceived or known" (PR 6). These passages, and others like them, indicate that...

...mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz., that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth,...have not any subsistence without a mind, that their beingis to be perceived or known; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me,...

...open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important truth to be, viz. that... all those bodies that compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without the mind" (PHK j}6). And he insists repeatedly that he is not denying anything the plain man thinks...

...thought so misguided. later destined to be an Anglican Bishop? Remember how he wrote so eloquently : ... all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth...the world - have not any subsistence without a mind; ... their being is to be perceived or known; ... consequently so long as they are not actually perceived...