...imply the relation of cause and effect, but only of a mark or sign with the thing signified. The fire which I see is not the cause of the pain I suffer...I hear is not the effect of this or that motion or 18 ["Imaginable" in the first edition.] collision of the ambient bodies, but the sign thereof. Secondly,...

...imply the relation of cause and effect, but only of a mark or sign with the thing signified. The fire which I see is not the cause of the pain I suffer...collision of the ambient bodies, but the sign thereof. (Ibid., 2:69) Then, a crucial passage occurs in which Berkeley openly proposes a "methodological shift"...

...imply the relation of cause and effect, but only of a mark or sign with the thing signified. The fire which I see is not the cause of the pain I suffer...motion or collision of the ambient bodies, but the sign thereof.20 Then, a crucial passage occurs in which Berkeley openly proposes a 'methodological shift'...

...imply the causal relation of cause and effect but rather that of sign and thing signified: 'The fire which I see is not the cause of the pain I suffer...approaching it, but the mark that forewarns me of it' (Principles, §65, p. 69). With his theory of signs, Berkeley develops Locke's theory of language and...

...imply the relation of cause and effect, but only of a mark or sign with the thing signified. The fire which I see is not the cause of the pain I suffer...approaching it, but the mark that forewarns me of it.107 The point of doing science is to help us learn to understand better the language that constitutes...

...only a mark or sign with the thing signified. The first which I see is not the cause of the pain 1 suffer upon my approaching it, but the mark that forewarns me of it. ... By this means abundance of information is conveyed unto us. concerning what we are to expect from...