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Abstract general ideas, like motion that is neither fast nor slow, cannot be conceived
Drawn from what George Berkeley said
What George Berkeley actually said
- George Berkeley Anglo-Irish philosopher and bishop (1685 to 1753)
I cannot by any effort of thought conceive the abstract idea above described. And it is equally impossible for me to form the abstract idea of motion distinct from the body moving, and which is neither swift nor slow, curvilinear nor rectilinear; and the like may be said of all other abstract general ideas whatsoever.
Where this was said
↗A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)gutenberg.org
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