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220 But in moral freedom originates in the agent, instead of being "consecutive" to his voluntary acts or found only in their consequences.
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221 "Strigose" (strigosus)-meagre.
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222 As he afterwards expresses it, we have intelligible _notions_, but not _ideas_-sensuous pictures-of the states or acts of our minds.
223 ["Omnes reales rerum proprietates continentur in Deo." What means Le Clerc &c. by this? Log. I. ch. 8.]-AUTHOR, on margin.
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224 "Si non rogas intelligo."
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225 This way of winning others to his own opinions is very characteristic of Berkeley. See p. 92 and note.
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226 See _Third Dialogue_, on _sameness_ in things and _sameness_ in persons, which it puzzles him to reconcile with his New Principles.
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227 Cf. _Essay on Vision_, sect. 52-61.
228 Cf. _Principles_, sect. 101-134.
229 "distance"-on opposite page in the MS. Cf. _Essay on Vision_, sect.
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230 Direct perception of phenomena is adequate to the perceived phenomena; indirect or scientific perception is inadequate, leaving room for faith and trust.
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231 Cf. _Essay on Vision_, sect. 107-8.
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232 The Divine Ideas of Malebranche and the sensuous ideas of Berkeley differ.
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233 Cf. _Essay on Vision_, sect. 71.
234 Cf. Malebranche, _Recherche_, Bk. I. c. 6. That and the following chapters seem to have been in Berkeley's mind.
235 He here a.s.sumes that extension (visible) is implied in the visible idea we call colour.
236 This strikingly ill.u.s.trates Berkeley's use of "idea," and what he intends when he argues against "abstract" ideas.
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237 An interesting autobiographical fact. From childhood he was indisposed to take things on trust.
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_ 238 Essay on Vision_, sect. 88-119.
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239 "thoughts," i.e. ideas of sense?
240 This, in a crude way, is the distinction of d??a?? and ?????e?a. It helps to explain Berkeley's meaning, when he occasionally speaks of the ideas or phenomena that appear in the sense experience of different persons as if they were absolutely independent ent.i.ties.
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241 To be "in an unperceiving thing," i.e. to be real, yet unperceived.
Whatever is perceived is, because realised only through a percipient act, an _idea_-in Berkeley's use of the word.
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242 This as to the "Platonic strain" is not in the tone of _Siris_.
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243 John Keill (1671-1721), an eminent mathematician, educated at the University of Edinburgh; in 1710 Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and the first to teach the Newtonian philosophy in that University. In 1708 he was engaged in a controversy in support of Newton's claims to the discovery of the method of fluxions.
