Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
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. Again, have I not heard you speak of sensible
impressions?
. I believe you may.
. Explain to me now, 0 Philonous! how it is possible
there should be room for all those trees and houses to exist in
your mind. Can extended things be contained in that which is
unextended? Or, are we to imagine impressions made on a thing
void of all solidity? You cannot say objects are in your mind, as
books in your study: or that things are imprinted on it, as the
figure of a seal upon wax. In what sense, therefore, are we to
understand those expressions? Explain me this if you can: and I
shall then be able to answer all those queries you formerly put
to me about my .
. Look you, Hylas, when I speak of objects as existing
in the mind, or imprinted on the senses, I would not be
understood in the gross literal sense; as when bodies are said to
exist in a place, or a seal to make an impression upon wax. My
meaning is only that the mind comprehends or perceives them; and
that it is affected from without, or by some being distinct from
itself.
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