Dialogue

 1 1|        are unwilling to have your notion of corporeal substance examined,
 2 1|      longer upon what you have no notion of.~HYL. To confess ingenuously,
 3 1|          you have only a relative NOTION of it, or that you conceive
 4 1|        according to you, have any notion of distance annexed to the
 5 2|   perceived. And pursuant to this notion of reality, YOU are obliged
 6 2|        think it looks very like a notion entertained by some eminent
 7 2|         substance.~PHIL. But what notion is it possible to frame
 8 2|           not pretend to have any notion of it.~PHIL. And what reason
 9 2|         say you have no manner of notion of it. After all, let me
10 2|         but, however, I have some notion of INSTRUMENT IN GENERAL,
11 2|          even in the most general notion of INSTRUMENT, as taken
12 2|          by the general nature or notion of INSTRUMENT?~HYL. That
13 2| instruments composeth the general notion.~PHIL. Is it not common
14 2|          loss what to think, this notion of OCCASION seeming now
15 2|           include in your present notion of Matter nothing but the
16 2|       positive in your abstracted notion of its existence?~HYL. Upon
17 2|          find I have any positive notion or meaning at all. I tell
18 2|          had some dilute and airy notion of Pure Entity in abstract;
19 2|          Matter, you have not any notion in your mind?~HYL. None
20 2|     having no direct and positive notion of it, I freely own. But,
21 2|          have not even a relative notion of it; where an abstraction
22 2|        against the reality of any notion, or existence of anything;
23 3|          inadequate. For, all the notion I have of God is obtained
24 3|        not by sense, yet I have a notion of Him, or know Him by reflexion
25 3|    Substance, because you have no notion or idea of it. Is this fair
26 3|          merely because I have no notion of it’ but because the notion
27 3|     notion of it’ but because the notion of it is inconsistent; or,
28 3|  repugnant that there should be a notion of it. Many things, for
29 3|           or can have any idea or notion whatsoever. But then those
30 3|           objections. In the very notion or definition of MATERIAL
31 3|        this cannot be said of the notion of Spirit. That ideas should
32 3|        say, lastly, that I have a notion of Spirit, though I have
33 3|         world for the truth of my notion. Ask the gardener why he
34 3|           it Spirit? Does not the notion of spirit imply that it
35 3|          have a mind to have some notion of meaning in what I say:
36 3|         what I say: but I have no notion of any action distinct from
37 3|         PHIL. Why the rejecting a notion that has no foundation,
38 3|           by a Mind. And, if this notion be singular, it is a shame
39 3|         be with your preconceived notion of (I know not what) one
40 3|          pretend to an abstracted notion of identity, then, according
41 3|        sundry definitions of this notion (for it is not yet agreed
42 3|       there will not be found any notion of what you call the ACTUALITY
43 3|          own I have no very clear notion annexed to them. But what
44 3|          and are peculiar to that notion. So far you are in the right.
45 3|           you. If, therefore, the notion you have of the creation
46 3|            I conceive it to be no notion at all; and so there is
47 3|          ever known a more jejune notion than that? Something it
48 3|          Matter to exist, and the notion of absolute existence to
49 3|     difficulty in reconciling the notion of an inert being with a
50 3|         be avoided by that single notion of IMMATERIALISM!~PHIL.
51 3|         Nor is this all; the same notion has been proved several
52 3|         am content to give up the notion of an unthinking substance