Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
. You acknowledge then that you cannot possibly
conceive how any one corporeal sensible thing should exist
otherwise than in the mind? {201}
. I do.
. And yet you will earnestly contend for the truth of
that which you cannot so much as conceive?
. I profess I know not what to think; but still there
are some scruples remain with me. Is it not certain I at> a distance? Do we not perceive the stars and moon, for
example, to be a great way off? Is not this, I say, manifest to
the senses?
. Do you not in a dream too perceive those or the like
objects?
. I do.
. And have they not then the same appearance of being
distant?
. They have.
. But you do not thence conclude the apparitions in a
dream to be without the mind?
. By no means.
. You ought not therefore to conclude that sensible
objects are without the mind, from their appearance, or manner
wherein they are perceived.
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