Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
. What else think you I could mean?
. Sensible things are all immediately perceivable; and
those things which are immediately perceivable are ideas; and
these exist only in the mind. Thus much you have, if I mistake
not, long since agreed to.
. I do not deny it.
. The brain therefore you speak of, being a sensible
thing, exists only in the mind. Now, I would fain know whether
you think it reasonable to suppose that one idea or thing
existing in the mind occasions all other ideas. And, if you think
so, pray how do you account for the origin of that primary idea
or brain itself?
. I do not explain the origin of our ideas by that
brain which is perceivable to sense -- this being itself only a
combination of sensible ideas -- but by another which I imagine.
. But are not things imagined as truly
as things perceived?
. I must confess they are.
. It comes, therefore, to the same thing; and you have
been all this while accounting for ideas by certain motions or
impressions of the brain; that is, by some alterations in an
idea, whether sensible or imaginable it matters not.
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