Full Idea
If heat and cold are only affections of the mind (since the same body seems cold to one hand and warm to the other), why may we not argue that figure and extension also appear different to the same eye at different stations?
Clarification
'Stations' are locations
Gist of Idea
Figure and extension seem just as dependent on the observer as heat and cold
Source
George Berkeley (The Principles of Human Knowledge [1710], §14)
Book Reference
Berkeley,George: 'The Principles of Human Knowledge etc.', ed/tr. Warnock,G.J. [Fontana 1962], p.71
A Reaction
If the assessment of the qualities of an object is entirely a matter of our experiences of it, there is no denying Berkeley on this. However, judgement goes beyond experience, into speculations, inferences, and explanations.