Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
. I begin to suspect my hypothesis.
. Besides spirits, all that we know or conceive are
our own ideas. When, therefore, you say all ideas are occasioned
by impressions in the brain, do you conceive this brain or no? If
you do, then you talk of ideas imprinted in an idea causing that
same idea, which is absurd. If you do not conceive it, you talk
unintelligibly, instead of forming a reasonable hypothesis. {210}
. I now clearly see it was a mere dream. There is
nothing in it.
. You need not be much concerned at it; for after all,
this way of explaining things, as you called it, could never have
satisfied any reasonable man. What connexion is there between a
motion in the nerves, and the sensations of sound or colour in
the mind? Or how is it possible these should be the effect of
that?
. But I could never think it had so little in it as now
it seems to have.
. Well then, are you at length satisfied that no
sensible things have a real existence; and that you are in truth
an arrant sceptic?
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