Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
It will.
. Ought we not therefore, by your principles, to
conclude it is really both cold and warm at the same time, that
is, according to your own concession, to believe an absurdity?
. I confess it seems so.
. Consequently, the principles themselves are false,
since you have granted that no true principle leads to an
absurdity.
. But, after all, can anything be more absurd than to
say, ?
. To make the point still clearer; tell me whether, in
two cases exactly alike, we ought not to make the same judgment?
.. We ought.
. When a pin pricks your finger, doth it not rend and
divide the fibres of your flesh?
. It doth.
. And when a coal burns your finger, doth it any more?
. It doth not.
. Since, therefore, you neither judge the sensation
itself occasioned by the pin, nor anything like it to be in the
pin; you should not, conformably to what you have now granted,
judge the sensation occasioned by the fire, or anything like it,
to be in the fire.
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