I am perfectly at a loss what to think, this notion
of
seeming now altogether as groundless as the rest.
. Do you not at length perceive that in all these
different acceptations of , you have been only supposing
you know not what, for no manner of reason, and to no kind of
use?
. I freely own myself less fond of my notions since
they have been so accurately examined. But still, methinks, I
have some confused perception that there is such a thing as
. {221}
. Either you perceive the being of Matter immediately
or mediately. If immediately, pray inform me by which of the
senses you perceive it. If mediately, let me know by what
reasoning it is inferred from those things which you perceive
immediately. So much for the perception. Then for the Matter
itself, I ask whether it is object, , cause,
instrument, or occasion? You have already pleaded for each of
these, shifting your notions, and making Matter to appear
sometimes in one shape, then in another.
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