Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
. Well, since it must be so, I am content to yield this
point, and acknowledge that heat and cold are only sensations
existing in our minds. But there still remain qualities enough to
secure the reality of external things.
. But what will you say, Hylas, if it shall appear
that the case is the same with regard to all other sensible
qualities, and that they can no more be supposed to exist without
the mind, than heat and cold?
. Then indeed you will have done something to the
purpose; but that is what I despair of seeing proved.
. Let us examine them in order. What think you of
, do they exist without the mind, or no?
. Can any man in his senses doubt whether sugar is
sweet, or wormwood bitter?
. Inform me, Hylas. Is a sweet taste a particular kind
of pleasure or pleasant sensation, or is it not? {180}
. It is.
. And is not bitterness some kind of uneasiness or
pain?
. I grant it.
. If therefore sugar and wormwood are unthinking
corporeal substances existing without the mind, how can sweetness
and bitterness, that is, Pleasure and pain, agree to them?
.
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