Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
. Not so fast, Philonous: you say you cannot conceive
how sensible things should exist without the mind. Do you not?
. I do.
. Supposing you were annihilated, cannot you conceive
it possible that things perceivable by sense may still exist?
. can; but then it must be in another mind. When I
deny sensible things an existence out of the mind, I do not mean
my mind in particular, but all minds. Now, it is plain they have
an existence exterior to my mind; since I find them by experience
to be independent of it. There is therefore some other Mind
wherein they exist, during the intervals between the times of
{231} my perceiving them: as likewise they did before my birth,
and would do after my supposed annihilation. And, as the same is
true with regard to all other finite created spirits, it
necessarily follows there is an , which
knows and comprehends all things, and exhibits them to our view
in such a manner, and according to such rules, as He Himself hath
ordained, and are by us termed the .
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