Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
Right.
. Be pleased therefore to let me know wherein that
relation
consists.
. Is it not sufficiently expressed in the term
, or ?
. If so, the word should import that it
is spread under the sensible qualities or accidents?
. True.
. And consequently under extension?
. I own it.
. It is therefore somewhat in its own nature entirely
distinct
from extension?
. I tell you, extension is only a mode, and Matter is
something that supports modes. And is it not evident the thing
supported is different from the thing supporting?
. So that something distinct from, and exclusive of,
extension is supposed to be the of extension?
. Just so.
. Answer me, Hylas. Can a thing be spread without
extension? or is not the idea of extension necessarily included
in ?
. It is.
. Whatsoever therefore you suppose spread under
anything must have in itself an extension distinct from the
extension of that thing under which it is spread?
.
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