Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
. Upon putting your hand near the fire, do you
perceive one simple uniform sensation, or two distinct
sensations?
. But one simple sensation.
. Is not the heat immediately perceived?,
. It is.
. And the pain?
. True.
. Seeing therefore they are both immediately perceived
at the same time, and the fire affects you only with one simple
or uncompounded idea, it follows that this same simple idea is
both the intense heat immediately perceived, and the pain; and,
consequently, that the intense heat immediately perceived is
nothing distinct from a particular sort of pain.
. It seems so.
. Again, try in your thoughts, Hylas, if you can
conceive a vehement sensation to be without pain or pleasure.
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. I cannot.
. Or can you frame to yourself an idea of sensible
pain or pleasure in general, abstracted from every particular
idea of heat, cold, tastes, smells? &c.
. I do not find that I can.
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