Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
. I shall insist no longer on that point. Do you think,
however, you shall persuade me that the natural philosophers have
been dreaming all this while? Pray what becomes of all their
hypotheses and explications of the phenomena, which suppose the
existence of Matter?
. What mean you, Hylas, by the ?
. I mean the appearances which I perceive by my senses.
. And the appearances perceived by sense, are they not
ideas?
. I have told you so a hundred times.
. Therefore, to explain the phenomena, is, to shew how
we come to be affected with ideas, in that manner and order
wherein they are imprinted on our senses. Is it not?
. It is.
. Now, if you can prove that any philosopher has
explained the production of any one idea in our minds by the help
of , I shall for ever acquiesce, and look on all that
hath been said against it as nothing; but, if you cannot, it is
vain to urge the explication of phenomena. That a Being endowed
with knowledge and will should produce or exhibit ideas is easily
understood.
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