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Often appears with: sources of error · skepticism · reason and the intellect · providence and knowledge · logic and metaphysics · language, naming, and meaning · general ideas of extension · general ideas of colour · examples of separation · doubt, skepticism, and certainty · critique of faculties · abuse of language
Usually: argument (1) · crisis of belief (1) · exhortation (1) · skepticism (1)
Berkeley explains how philosophers say abstraction works, giving examples of separating extension, colour, and motion, and then forming generalized ideas like extension-in-general or colour-in-general.
from any darkness and intricacy in the objects, or natural defect in the understanding, so much as from false Principles which have been insisted on, and might have been avoided. 5. How difficult and discouraging soever this attempt may seem, when I consider how many great and extraordinary men have gone before me in the like designs, yet I am not without some hopes--upon the consideration that the largest views are…