Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
. But is not the most vehement and intense degree of
heat a very great pain?
. No one can deny it.
. And is any unperceiving thing capable of pain or
pleasure?
. No, certainly.
. Is your material substance a senseless being, or a
being endowed with sense and perception?
. It is senseless without doubt.
. It cannot therefore be the subject of pain?
. By no means.
. Nor consequently of the greatest heat perceived by
sense, since you acknowledge this to be no small pain?
. I grant it.
. What shall we say then of your external object; is
it a material Substance, or no?
. It is a material substance with the sensible
qualities inhering in it.
. How then can a great heat exist in it, since you own
it cannot in a material substance? I desire you would clear this
point.
. Hold, Philonous, I fear I was out in yielding intense
heat to be a pain. It should seem rather, that pain is something
distinct from heat, and the consequence or effect of it.
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