Dialogue

 1 1|        no such thing as MATERIAL SUBSTANCE in the world.~PHIL. That
 2 1|       PHILOSOPHERS CALL MATERIAL SUBSTANCE, I am seriously persuaded:
 3 1|           PHIL. Is your material substance a senseless being, or a
 4 1|         object; is it a material Substance, or no?~HYL. It is a material
 5 1|        no?~HYL. It is a material substance with the sensible qualities
 6 1|          it cannot in a material substance? I desire you would clear
 7 1|        an unperceiving corporeal substance. But this is no reason why
 8 1|        degree to exist in such a substance.~PHIL. But how shall we
 9 1|          mind in an unperceiving substance, or body.~HYL. So it seems.~
10 1|         exist only in a thinking substance; may we not conclude that
11 1|       may agree to an unthinking substance, I hope you will not deny.~
12 1|          in any but a perceiving substance or mind?~HYL. I think so.~
13 1|         AIR you mean a senseless substance existing without the mind?~
14 1|          Pray, is your corporeal substance either a sensible quality,
15 1| consequence, that your CORPOREAL SUBSTANCE is nothing distinct from
16 1|         your notion of corporeal substance examined, I shall urge that
17 1|      immediately some contiguous substance, which, operating on the
18 1|       PHIL. Howl is light then a substance?~HYL. . I tell you, Philonous,
19 1|         nothing but a thin fluid substance, whose minute particles
20 1|       you understand a corporeal substance external to the mind?~HYL.
21 1|          to any but a perceiving substance.~HYL. That is what I say.~
22 1|       outward object or material substance? HYL. It is.~PHIL. Have
23 1|         exist in an unperceiving substance, then surely it follows
24 1|         in conceiving a material substance, prior to and distinct from
25 1|        can be in an unperceiving substance, men are more easily weaned
26 1|           exist in any corporeal substance?~HYL. I will take time to
27 1|         mind, in some unthinking substance.~PHIL. That the colours
28 1|    should exist in an unthinking substance, or exterior to ALL minds,
29 1|   pretend to SEE that unthinking substance.~HYL. You have an artful
30 1|    should exist in an unthinking substance?~HYL. I grant it. But it
31 1|         exist in an unperceiving substance? And is not this a plain
32 1|         exist in an unperceiving substance? In short, do but consider
33 1|         exist in an unperceiving substance. But then, on the other
34 1|          the term SUBSTRATUM, or SUBSTANCE?~PHIL. If so, the word SUBSTRATUM
35 1|    Consequently, every corporeal substance, being the SUBSTRATUM of
36 1|      general the same thing with SUBSTANCE.~PHIL. Well then, let us
37 1|     relation implied in the term SUBSTANCE. Is it not that it stands
38 2|       them by her union with the substance of God, which, being spiritual,
39 2|          part) of the essence or substance of God, who is an impassive,
40 2|         them in the intelligible Substance of God. This I do not understand;
41 2|   moveable, unthinking, inactive Substance?~HYL. It doth.~PHIL. And,
42 2|        made evident that no SUCH substance can possibly exist? And,
43 2|        consequently an extended, substance, existing without the mind.
44 2|   determine nothing of, both the substance and its qualities being
45 2|         exist in an unperceiving substance.~PHIL. But what notion is
46 2|         to act, by an unthinking substance? And, lastly, whether, in
47 2|       existence of an unthinking substance, distinct from its being
48 2|          tell me whether it is a Substance; and if so, whether you
49 2|        whether you can suppose a Substance without accidents; or, in
50 2|     understand by MATTER neither substance nor accident, thinking nor
51 2|        from a belief of material substance, you would have it that
52 2|         solid, figured, moveable substance, existing without the mind?
53 2|        the possibility of such a substance?~HYL. True, but that is
54 3|        by the belief of MATERIAL SUBSTANCE? This makes you dream of
55 3|       own hypothesis of material Substance, and positively to deny
56 3|         agree with you. MATERIAL SUBSTANCE was no more than an hypothesis;
57 3|          am a spirit or thinking substance, exist as certainly as I
58 3|          that there is spiritual Substance, although you have no idea
59 3|         such a thing as material Substance, because you have no notion
60 3|        the existence of material substance, merely because I have no
61 3|           unperceiving, inactive Substance—either by probable deduction,
62 3|        or definition of MATERIAL SUBSTANCE, there is included a manifest
63 3|      floating ideas, without any substance to support them. Words are
64 3|        more meaning in SPIRITUAL SUBSTANCE than in MATERIAL SUBSTANCE,
65 3|       SUBSTANCE than in MATERIAL SUBSTANCE, the one is to be exploded
66 3|        that there is a spiritual substance or support of ideas, that
67 3|        said that an unperceiving substance hath inherent in it and
68 3|          Philonous, or corporeal Substance; there is the point. You
69 3|         person. That there is no substance wherein ideas can exist
70 3|       that there is any material substance. But if by MATERIAL SUBSTANCE
71 3|    substance. But if by MATERIAL SUBSTANCE is meant only SENSIBLE BODY,
72 3|   Philonous, when I consider the substance of what you advance against
73 3|       creation? That a corporeal substance, which hath an absolute
74 3|     principles, plastic natures, substance and accident, principle
75 3|          the unthinking external substance may concur, as a cause or
76 3|  expression. MATTER, or MATERIAL SUBSTANCE, are terms introduced by
77 3|         with the TERMS SENSIBLE, SUBSTANCE, BODY, STUFF, and the like,
78 3|          notion of an unthinking substance exterior to the mind, I
79 3|     freely own there is no other substance, in a strict sense, than
80 3|      term be meant an unthinking substance existing without the mind;
81 3|        in effect, constitute the substance of what I advance.~HYL.