Pardon me, Hylas, if I am desirous clearly to
apprehend your notions, since this may much shorten our inquiry.
Suffer me then to ask you this farther question. Are those things
only perceived by the senses which are perceived immediately? Or,
may those things properly be said to be
which are
perceived mediately, or not without the intervention of others?
. I do not sufficiently understand you.
. In reading a book, what I immediately perceive are
the letters; but mediately, or by means of these, are suggested
to my mind the notions of God, virtue, truth, &c. Now, that the
letters are truly sensible things, or perceived by sense, there
is no doubt: but I would know whether you take the things
suggested by them to be so too.
. No, certainly: it were absurd to think or
sensible things; though they may be signified and
suggested to the mind by sensible marks, with which they have an
arbitrary connexion.
. It seems then, that by you mean
those only which can be perceived by sense?
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