Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
. There, Hylas, I must beg leave to differ from you.
. What! Have you all along agreed to the premises, and
do you now deny the conclusion, and leave me to maintain those
paradoxes by myself which you led me into? This surely is not
fair.
. deny that I agreed with you in those notions
that led to Scepticism. You indeed said the of sensible
things consisted in spirits>, or distinct from their being perceived. And pursuant to
this notion of reality, are obliged to deny sensible things
any {212} real existence: that is, according to your own
definition, you profess yourself a sceptic. But I neither said
nor thought the reality of sensible things was to be defined
after that manner. To me it is evident for the reasons you allow
of, that sensible things cannot exist otherwise than in a mind or
spirit. Whence I conclude, not that they have no real existence,
but that., seeing they depend not on my thought, and have all
existence distinct from being perceived by me, some other Mind wherein they exist>.
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