Dialogue

  1 1|           dictates of nature and common sense, I find my understanding
  2 1|                more repugnant to Common Sense, or a more manifest piece
  3 1|               and repugnances to Common Sense, than I who believe no such
  4 1|                most agreeable to Common Sense, and remote from Scepticism?~
  5 1|                 things, or perceived by sense, there is no doubt: but
  6 1|                perceived IMMEDIATELY by sense?~HYL. Right.~PHIL. Doth
  7 1|              thing, or perceived by the sense of seeing?~HYL. It doth.~
  8 1|             only which are perceived by sense; and that in truth the senses
  9 1|            which alone are perceived by sense, entirely relates to reason.~
 10 1|                IMMEDIATELY PERCEIVED BY SENSE. You will farther inform
 11 1|           degree of heat we perceive by sense, we may be sure the same
 12 1|              They are both perceived by sense; nay, the greater degree
 13 1|                 or a being endowed with sense and perception?~HYL. It
 14 1|              greatest heat perceived by sense, since you acknowledge this
 15 1|                by appealing to your own sense. But what think you of cold?~
 16 1|              may.~PHIL. It is then good sense to speak of MOTION as of
 17 1|                the real and philosophic sense; which, as I just now told
 18 1|                repugnant to the general sense of the world. But, can you
 19 1|               is obtained by some other sense? And is there nothing in
 20 1|                 we perceive anything by sense which we do not perceive
 21 1|             acts first on our organs of sense. But the only action of
 22 1|             Colours then, in the vulgar sense, or taken for the immediate
 23 1|         extension which you perceive by sense exist in the outward object
 24 1|           consistent either with common sense, or with what you just now
 25 1|                 any other; and, in this sense, to consider or treat of
 26 1|                 only to be perceived by sense, or represented by the imagination.
 27 1|                 originally perceived by sense, do not belong to pure intellect:
 28 1|               SPREAD in a gross literal sense under extension. The word
 29 1|              things in a strict literal sense. That is not fair, Philonous.~
 30 1|                 am not for imposing any sense on your words: you are at
 31 1|                 No; that is the literal sense.~PHIL. Pray let me know
 32 1|              PHIL. Pray let me know any sense, literal or not literal,
 33 1|         acknowledge it. But doth not my sense deceive me in those cases?~
 34 1|           immediately perceive, neither sense nor reason informs you that
 35 1|             exists without the mind. By sense you only know that you are
 36 1|           external objects perceived by sense or by some other faculty?~
 37 1|              HYL. They are perceived by sense.~PHIL. Howl Is there any
 38 1|            there any thing perceived by sense which is not immediately
 39 1|             these also are perceived by sense, inasmuch as they have a
 40 1|         imperceptible, are perceived by sense.~HYL. In the very same.~
 41 1|              the sensations or ideas of sense by you then perceived; since
 42 1|                anything is perceived by sense which is not, immediately
 43 1|            sensible things mediately by sense: that is, when, from a frequently
 44 1|              perception of ideas by one sense SUGGESTS to the mind others,
 45 1|            perhaps belonging to another sense, which are wont to be connected
 46 1|              then properly perceived by sense, but suggested from experience.
 47 1|              properly perceived by that sense. In short, those things
 48 1|               strictly perceived by any sense, which would have been perceived
 49 1|             perceived in case that same sense had then been first conferred
 50 1|             ideas, are not perceived by sense, but by some internal faculty
 51 1|            immediately or mediately: by sense, or by reason and reflexion.
 52 1|               But, as you have excluded sense, pray shew me what reason
 53 1|              our faculties or organs of sense?~HYL. Real things, it is
 54 2|              they make on the organs of sense, communicate certain vibrative
 55 2|                 which is perceivable to sense—this being itself only a
 56 2|             your aid. The feeble narrow sense cannot descry innumerable
 57 2|             endless forms. But, neither sense nor imagination are big
 58 2|      extravagantly absurd by all men of sense?~HYL. Other men may think
 59 2|                immediately perceived by sense to exist nowhere without
 60 2|                 is nothing perceived by sense which is not perceived immediately:
 61 2|        discovered by reason, and not by sense.~HYL. You are in the right.~
 62 2|              Matter is, in your present sense of it.~HYL. I find myself
 63 2|               even like a man of common sense, to pretend to believe you
 64 2|                  as taken in a distinct sense from CAUSE, which makes
 65 2|             when you have shewn in what sense you understand OCCASION,
 66 2|               insist now on your making sense of this hypothesis, or answering
 67 2|                 there is MATTER in some sense or other. WHAT THAT IS I
 68 2|                it is not. In the common sense of the word MATTER, is there
 69 2|              True, but that is only one sense of the term MATTER.~PHIL.
 70 2|                 proper genuine received sense? And, if Matter, in such
 71 2|               And, if Matter, in such a sense, be proved impossible, may
 72 2|        mentioned is the common received sense among philosophers themselves.
 73 2|          allowed to take Matter in what sense you pleased? And have you
 74 2|          impossible in every particular sense that either you or any one
 75 2|               abstracted and indefinite sense.~PHIL. . When is a thing
 76 2|             call the obscure indefinite sense of the word MATTER, it is
 77 2|             included no idea at all, no sense except an unknown sense;
 78 2|                 sense except an unknown sense; which is the same thing
 79 2|              Matter taken in an UNKNOWN sense, that is, no sense at all.
 80 2|              UNKNOWN sense, that is, no sense at all. My business was
 81 3|                 water to your organs of sense. Their internal constitution,
 82 3|              that things perceivable by sense may still exist?~PHIL. I
 83 3|                the word IDEA in a large sense, my soul may be said to
 84 3|            though I perceive Him not by sense, yet I have a notion of
 85 3|                 to appeal to the common sense of the world for the truth
 86 3|                it. What he perceives by sense, that he terms a real, being,
 87 3|              and contrary to the common sense of men. Ask the fellow whether
 88 3|              But the ideas perceived by sense, that is, real things, are
 89 3|              strange or shocking in its sense; which in effect amounts
 90 3|              repugnant to the universal sense of mankind. Were our dispute
 91 3|                men who had plain common sense, without the prejudices
 92 3| UNTHINKING-SUBSTRATUM of the objects of sense, and IN THAT ACCEPTATION
 93 3|             constitute in the strictest sense a mind or spirit. The powerful
 94 3|                liable to impressions of sense, the effects of an external
 95 3|                who perceives nothing by sense as we do; whose will is
 96 3|             suffer, or feel anything by sense, is an imperfection. The
 97 3|              are not conveyed to Him by sense, as ours are. Your not distinguishing,
 98 3|             MATTER, in your philosophic sense of the word; except you
 99 3|                resistance, perceived by sense, I readily grant; as likewise,
100 3|                appearances perceived by sense, are they not ideas?~HYL.
101 3|                no foundation, either in sense, or in reason, or in Divine
102 3|           endeavour to vindicate Common Sense. It is true, in doing this,
103 3|           divers senses, or by the same sense at different times, or in
104 3|                sight, the object of one sense not being perceived by the
105 3|                 are informed, either by sense or reason, of the existence
106 3|       difference between the objects of sense and those of imagination.
107 3|                a seal upon wax. In what sense, therefore, are we to understand
108 3|         understood in the gross literal sense; as when bodies are said
109 3|                in their gross, original sense.~HYL. You have, I own, satisfied
110 3|               retained or rejected, the sense, the truth, and reality
111 3|          notions?~PHIL. If all possible sense which can be put on the
112 3|              with them. But there is no sense you may not as well conceive,
113 3|                HYL. Pray let me see any sense you can understand it in.~
114 3|             This is the literal obvious sense suggested to me by the words
115 3|               than I. What metaphysical sense you may understand it in,
116 3|           natural, obvious, and literal sense of the Mosaic history of
117 3|                 you can assign no other sense or meaning in its stead;
118 3|               against a creation in any sense; nay, against every other
119 3|               allowed the full scope of sense, imagination, and reason.
120 3|           understood in a plain obvious sense, or in a sense which is
121 3|            plain obvious sense, or in a sense which is metaphysical and
122 3|              the way?~HYL. In the plain sense, doubtless.~PHIL. When Moses
123 3|                  or things perceived by sense, to be denied a real existence
124 3|               destroy the plain obvious sense of Moses, with which their
125 3|                in the strict and proper sense of the word. A Being whose
126 3|                most agreeable to Common Sense and remote from Scepticism.
127 3|                 neither be perceived by sense, nor apprehended by the
128 3|              apply it to the objects of sense, if you please; provided
129 3|                the immediate objects of sense. One would think, therefore,
130 3|            other substance, in a strict sense, than SPIRIT. But I have
131 3|                 agreeable to the common sense of mankind, and Holy Scripture,
132 3|                bring men back to Common Sense.~ ~