But, can you think it no more than a philosophical
paradox, to say that
, and that the
idea of them is obtained by some other sense? And is there
nothing in this contrary to nature and the truth of things?
. To deal ingenuously, I do not like it. And, after the
concessions already made, I had as well grant that sounds too
have no real being without the mind.
. And I hope you will make no difficulty to
acknowledge the same of .
. Pardon me: the case of colours is very different. Can
anything be plainer than that we see them on the objects?
. The objects you speak of are, I suppose, corporeal
Substances existing without the mind?
. They are.
. And have true and real colours inhering in them?
. Each visible object hath that colour which we see in
it.
. How! is there anything visible but what we perceive
by sight?
. There is not.
. And, do we perceive anything by sense which we do
not perceive immediately?
.
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