Idea and Ontology: An Essay in Early Modern Metaphysics of Ideas

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index abstraction, 218–33, 235, 243. See also ideas, abstract Anderson, Robert, 254 Aristotle, 9, 11–14, 42, 43, 98, 221 Armstrong, D. M., 234, 238, 239 Arnauld, Antoine, 4, 39, 53, 55, 62, 65–66, 72– 78, 80, 82, 114, 116, 118, 119 critique of Malebranche, 75–78 as direct realist, 74 ideas as acts, 73–74 and mental presence, 75–76 representation, 41, 72–73, 76 theory of perception, 74–75 Atherton, Margaret, 239–40 attributes, as distinct from modes, 20–21 Augustine, 19, 59 Ayers, Michael, 86, 165 Beauchamp, Tom, 255 Belfrage, Bertil, 166–67 Bennett, Jonathan, 24–25, 91, 110, 116, 171 Berkeley, George, 4, 8–10, 31, 35, 42, 66, 115, 138–245, 246, 247–48, 250, 257, 266 and ‘‘’’ sign, 165–67 act/object distinction, 143–44, 146–47, 148– 52, 154, 195–200 archetypes, 157, 178–80, 185, 208–9, 210, 213–14 attributes, 21 n. 10 and common sense objects, 204, 210 and continuity of perceived world, 205–6 esse is percipi principle, 141, 154, 171, 175, 181, 194, 195, 199, 224 God, as preserving the world, 159–60, 206–8, 242 idea-quality conflation, 155–59, 194–95, 243, 260 ideas: abstract, 218–33, 235; as acts (see Locke, ideas, as acts); adverbial account of, 139–40, 142–55, 241–42; deontologizing , 28, 30, 173; dependence on minds, 25 n. 17, 139, 144, 152, 154, 198, 201; divine, 8, 177–217; as ‘‘external’’ to the mind, 141, 146, 159–60, 182, 186, 188, 240, 241; as fleeting, 209–17, 257–58; as heterogeneous, 9, 218, 233–45 (see also heterogeneity); numerically identical to God’s, 187–88, 192 n. 17, 206–9; of imagination, 200, 207, 215; as immediate, 154; ‘‘in’’ the mind, 140–41, 158, 181–89, 203–4; as modes, 138, 140, 142–43, 145–46, 148–55, 175, 183, 241–42; as objects, 138, 141–48; as passive, 145, 206–8, 214, 243; as private, 178, 180, 193–205; as quasi substance (see substance, quasi); of reflection, 146–47; as relativized qualities, 202–4; as sensations, 151, 194–95; unperceived existence of, 149, 152–53, 159–61 as identifying content and ontological status, 241–45 law of saturation, 227 laws of nature, 168 likeness principle, 146, 213 minds (see Berkeley, spirits) and minimum sensibilia, 157, 239, 253 mosaic account of creation, 169–71 notions, 153 perception, theory of, 157 and phenomenalism, 161–64, 167–72 qualities (see Berkeley, idea-quality conflation ) as realist, 156–8, 161, 174–75, 192, 197–98 and skepticism, 156, 157, 180, 184–85, 192, 193, 198, 203–4 spirits: as active, 145; no ideas of, 147, 153, 213; as the only substance, 139, 141; passive in perception, 150–51, 156, 197–98 time, 19, 211 n. 40 and tulip-smelling argument, 195–98, 201 and volitional independence, 141, 158, 160, 206, 243 Berman, David, 234 n. 15 Brinkley, John, 123 n. 11 Brykman, Geneviéve, 185 n. 13 causation causal reality principle, 48, 50, 63 as contagion, 47, 49 among ideas, 50 mental-mental, 53–54 mind-body, 46, 52 n. 13 Chappell, Vere, 29, 82, 91 counterfactuals, grounded, 162–63 276 index Craig, E. J., 219 Cummins, Phillip, 247 Daniel, Stephen, 139 n. 2, 167 dependence, ontological and causal, 14–15, 17– 18. See also Berkeley, ideas, dependence on mind Descartes, René, 2, 6, 26, 31, 35, 37–54, 55–56, 59, 66, 114, 151, 154, 173, 267 animal spirits, 45, 51, 53 causal reality principle (see causation) concept of mode, 20–21, 67 concept of substance, 11, 15, 16–17, 19–20 ideas: adventitious, 47, 54; as corporeal, 6, 38, 44–47; definition of, 38, 43; innate, 47–51; innovative use of, 37 material/objective distinction, 29, 34, 38–40, 56, 82 mind-body relation, 46 pineal gland (gland H), 44–45, 47, 51, 53 and qualities, 43 and wax analogy, 42, 45 dispositions, 8, 49, 117–36. See also ideas, as dispositions grounded, 32–33, 120, 129, 163 of the soul, 53 distance, not immediately seen, 234 distinctness, strong and weak, 144–45 divine ideas. See Berkeley, ideas, divine Duns Scotus, John, 37 epistemology as first philosophy, 266 as ground for ontology, 174–75 as ‘‘pure,’’ 30–34 Flage, Daniel, 173–75 Foucher, Simon, 39 Gibson, James, 101 God as atemporal, 19, 187 attributes expressed in us, 133–36 archetypal order of, 177, 179–93, 206, 242 as enduring, 19 as independent substance, 15, 17, 59...