Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
I did.
. That is to say, when you conceive the real existence
of qualities, you do withal conceive Something which you cannot
conceive?
. It was wrong, I own. But still I fear there is some
fallacy or other. Pray what think you of this? It is just come
into my head that the ground of all our mistake lies in your
treating of each quality by itself. Now, I grant that each
quality cannot singly subsist without the mind. Colour cannot
without extension, neither can figure without some other sensible
quality. But, as the several qualities united or blended together
form entire sensible things, nothing hinders why such things may
not be supposed to exist without the mind.
. Either, Hylas, you are jesting, or have a very bad
memory. Though indeed we went through all the qualities by name
one after another, yet my arguments or rather your concessions,
nowhere tended to prove that the Secondary Qualities did not
subsist each alone by itself; but, that they were not {200} all> without the mind.
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