You are always teasing me for reasons of my belief.
Pray what reasons have you not to believe it?
. It is to me a sufficient reason not to believe the
existence of anything, if I see no reason for believing it. But,
not to insist on reasons for believing, you will not so much as
let me know you would have me believe; since you say
you have no manner of notion of it. After all, let me entreat you
to consider whether it be like a philosopher, or even like a man
of common sense, to pretend to believe you know not what ' and
you know not why.
. Hold, Philonous. When I tell you Matter is an
, I do not mean altogether nothing. It is true I know
not the particular kind of instrument; but, however, I have some
notion of , which I apply to it.
. But what if it should prove that there is something,
even in the most general notion of , as taken in a
distinct sense from , which makes the use of it
inconsistent with the Divine attributes?
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