...them as synonyms (id., § 139). produces them, a, more powerful spirit that imprints them upon us. " Now the set rules or established methods wherein the Mind we depend on exeites in us the ideas of sense, are called the laws of nature ; and these we learn by experience....

...imagination ; they have likewise a steadiness, order, and coherence, and are not excited at random, as those which are the effects of human wills often are, but in a regular train and series." l Berkeley, then, finds in ideas of sensation themselves the criterion by which they are...

...attended with such and such other ideas '" — herein consists the arbitrariness of the connection — but "the set rules or established methods wherein the...are called the laws of nature; and these we learn by experience."2 And "all this we know, not by discovering any necessary connection between our ideas,...

...* ; they have likewise a steadiness, order, and coherence, and are not excited at random, as those which are the effects of human wills often are, but...methods, wherein the Mind we depend on excites in us fhe•Tdeas of Sense, are called the laws of nature ; and TKese°we learn by experience, which teaches...

...3 ; they have likewise a steadiness, order, and coherence, and are not excited at random, as those which are the effects of human wills often are, but...connexion whereof sufficiently testifies the wisdom and bene- "" volence of its Author. Now the set ru\es1 or established 71, and such ideas jvrejittended...

...mind. Therefore, it is only by experience that we can learn the constant relation between ideas. " Now the set rules or established methods wherein the...the ideas of sense, are called the laws of nature " (Ibid. § 30). " And these we learn by experience, which teaches us that such and such ideas are...

...SO ausgesprochen: „The ideas of sense are not excited at randoin, äs those which are the eifects of human wills often are, but in a regular train or series, the admirable ') Wie diese Existenz der Idee im Bewusstsein zu denken ist, kommt später bei der Erörterung über...

...the effects of human wills often are, but in a regular train or series — the admirable connection whereof sufficiently testifies the wisdom and benevolence...excites in us the ideas of Sense, are called the laws of nature."1' Of the attributes of experience here in question, independence or " steadiness " is not...

...Imagination; they have likewise a steadiness, order, and coherence, and are not excited at random, as those which are the effects of human wills often are, but in a regular train or series — the admirable connection whereof sufficiently testifies the wisdom and benevolence of its Author. Now the set rules,...

...Part I, § 27, 28, 29. « /&., Part I, § 30, 33. The laws of nature according to Berkeley are merely the "set rules or established methods, wherein the...mind we depend on excites in us the ideas of sense." l Any observed connection of ideas in our thought does not, therefore, imply any relation of cause...