How often must I inculcate the same thing? You allow
the things immediately perceived by sense to exist nowhere
without the mind; but there is nothing perceived by sense which
is not perceived immediately: therefore there is nothing sensible
that exists without the mind. The Matter, therefore, which you
still insist on is something intelligible, I suppose; something
that may be discovered by reason, and not by sense.
. You are in the right. {216}
. Pray let me know what reasoning your belief of
Matter is grounded on; and what this Matter is, in your present
sense of it.
. I find myself affected with various ideas, whereof I
know I am not the cause; neither are they the cause of
themselves, or of one another, or capable of subsisting by
themselves, as being altogether inactive, fleeting, dependent
beings. They have therefore cause distinct from me and
them: of which I pretend to know no more than that it is cause of my ideas>. And this thing, whatever it be, I call
Matter.
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