Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
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. You may draw as many absurd consequences as you
please, and endeavour to perplex the plainest things; but you
shall never persuade me out of my senses. I clearly understand my
own meaning.
. I wish you would make me understand it too. But,
since you are unwilling to have your notion of corporeal
substance examined, I shall urge that point no farther. Only be
pleased to let me know, whether the same colours which we see
exist in external bodies, or some other.
. The very same.
. What! are then the beautiful red and purple we see
on yonder clouds really in them? Or do you imagine they have in
themselves any other form than that of a dark mist or vapour?
. I must own, Philonous, those colours are not really
in the clouds as they seem to be at this distance. They are only
apparent colours.
. call you them? how shall we distinguish
these apparent colours from real?
. Very easily. Those are to be thought apparent which,
appearing only at a distance, vanish upon a nearer approach.
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