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George Berkeley
Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

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1 1| touch, more than tangible qualities.~HYL. We do not.~PHIL. It 2 1| you take away all sensible qualities, there remains nothing sensible?~ 3 1| else but so many sensible qualities, or combinations of sensible 4 1| combinations of sensible qualities?~HYL. Nothing else.~PHIL. 5 1| substance with the sensible qualities inhering in it.~PHIL. How 6 1| But there still remain qualities enough to secure the reality 7 1| regard to all other sensible qualities, and that they can no more 8 1| thus distinguished: those qualities, as perceived by us, are 9 1| OUR SENSES. Whatever other qualities, therefore, you speak of 10 1| have discovered certain qualities which you do not perceive, 11 1| assert those insensible qualities exist in fire and sugar. 12 1| bitterness (meaning those qualities which are perceived by the 13 1| cause as to those mentioned qualities. Though I profess it sounds 14 1| the other forementioned qualities, that they cannot exist 15 1| senses, except sensible qualities. I know you asserted there 16 1| or made up of sensible qualities?~HYL. What a question that 17 1| substances are sensible qualities, or else that there is something 18 1| something besides sensible qualities perceived by sight: but, 19 1| nothing distinct from SENSIBLE QUALITIES.~HYL. You may draw as many 20 1| point as to those sensible qualities which are alone thought 21 1| all those termed SECONDARY QUALITIES, have certainly no existence 22 1| you must know sensible qualities are by philosophers divided 23 1| or, briefly, ALL SENSIBLE QUALITIES BESIDE THE PRIMARY; which 24 1| brought against Secondary Qualities will hold good against these 25 1| includes all other sensible qualities did not also include extension? 26 1| philosophers who deny the Secondary Qualities any real existence should 27 1| Secondary than the Primary Qualities. You will be satisfied there 28 1| I think so.~PHIL. These qualities, therefore, stripped of 29 1| from the ideas of all those qualities which they who make the 30 1| from all other sensible qualities? Pray how do the mathematicians 31 1| and reasonings about those qualities, without mentioning any 32 1| regarding what other sensible. qualities it is attended with, as 33 1| even from other sensible qualities.~HYL. Let me think a little— 34 1| from all other sensible qualities, doth it not follow, that 35 1| conclusive against the Secondary Qualities are, without any farther 36 1| it not plain all sensible qualities coexist, or to them appear 37 1| other visible and tangible qualities?~HYL. You need say no more 38 1| hitherto, that all sensible qualities are alike to be denied existence 39 1| them as so many modes and qualities, I find it necessary to 40 1| sensible; its modes and qualities only being perceived by 41 1| conclude it exists, because qualities cannot be conceived to exist 42 1| relation it bears to sensible qualities?~HYL. Right.~PHIL. Be pleased 43 1| spread under the sensible qualities or accidents?~HYL. True.~ 44 1| you could not conceive how qualities or accidents should really 45 1| conceive the real existence of qualities, you do withal conceive 46 1| quality. But, as the several qualities united or blended together 47 1| we went through all the qualities by name one after another, 48 1| prove that the Secondary Qualities did not subsist each alone 49 1| them from all secondary qualities, so as to conceive them 50 1| mixture or combination of qualities, or any sensible object 51 1| words, since all sensible qualities, as size, figure, colour, & 52 2| PHIL. And are sensible qualities anything else but ideas?~ 53 2| both the substance and its qualities being entirely unknown to 54 2| convinced, that no sensible qualities can exist in an unperceiving 55 2| instrument void of all sensible qualities, even extension itself?~ 56 2| it to have accidents or qualities, I desire you will let me 57 2| will let me know what those qualities are, at least what is meant 58 2| those particular things, qualities, or ideas, that I perceive, 59 3| themselves, like those sensible qualities by us perceived. We should 60 3| weight, and other sensible qualities, think you they are really 61 3| colours and other sensible qualities are on the objects. I cannot 62 3| as to say, the sensible qualities are not on the objects: 63 3| agreed. And that sensible qualities are objects immediately 64 3| be no SUBSTRATUM of those qualities but spirit; in which they 65 3| but a complexion of such qualities or ideas as have no existence 66 3| proportional to those sensible qualities; which to suppose is plainly 67 3| be proportional to those qualities I will not dispute. But 68 3| dispute. But that either these qualities as perceived by us, or the 69 3| Matter, though we knew its qualities, and could comprehend its 70 3| and paradoxes. That the qualities we perceive are not on the 71 3| figure, and other sensible qualities, perceived all manner of 72 3| from all those sensible qualities, and by its EXISTENCE something 73 3| stripped of all sensible qualities, and can neither be perceived 74 3| a collection of sensible qualities subsisting only in the mind.


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