Dialogue

 1 1|     cause of that diversity of colours, yet that cause cannot be
 2 1|     anything beside light, and colours, and figures; or by hearing,
 3 1|        acknowledge the same of COLOURS.~HYL. Pardon me: the case
 4 1|         Pardon me: the case of colours is very different. Can anything
 5 1|         And have true and real colours inhering in them?~HYL. Each
 6 1|      me know, whether the same colours which we see exist in external
 7 1|     must own, Philonous, those colours are not really in the clouds
 8 1|         They are only apparent colours.~PHIL. APPARENT call you
 9 1|     distinguish these apparent colours from real?~HYL. Very easily.
10 1|     microscope often discovers colours in an object different from
11 1|        really and naturally no colours on objects: because by artificial
12 1|      concessions, that all the colours we see with our naked eyes
13 1|      what it is in itself. The colours, therefore, by it perceived
14 1|   humours, do not see the same colours in every object that we
15 1|        seem to follow that all colours are equally apparent, and
16 1|     you consider that, in case colours were real properties or
17 1|       in the thing itself, the colours of any object are either
18 1|        shall present different colours to the eye. The same thing
19 1|        proportion to the light colours are still more or less vivid;
20 1|       light, then are there no colours perceived. Besides, allowing
21 1|    Besides, allowing there are colours on external objects, yet,
22 1|      occasions a perception of colours: and such is light.~PHIL.
23 1|        then do you affirm that colours are in the light; since
24 1|       the mind?~HYL. Light and colours, as immediately perceived
25 1|     particles of matter.~PHIL. Colours then, in the vulgar sense,
26 1|        which are alone thought colours by all mankind beside, you
27 1|      WHICH WE SEE ARE NOT REAL COLOURS, BUT CERTAIN UNKNOWN MOTIONS
28 1|       it is in vain to longer. Colours, sounds, tastes, in a word
29 1|        act of perceiving those colours is in me only, and not in
30 1|      substance.~PHIL. That the colours are really in the tulip
31 1|        in perceiving light and colours, or in opening and turning
32 1|        perception of light and colours altogether passive, what
33 1|        perception of light and colours, including no action in
34 1| ingenuously, whether light and colours, tastes, sounds, &c. are
35 1|        sensations of light and colours, &c. And these you will
36 1|        is it your opinion that colours are at a distance?~HYL.
37 1|     the mind.~PHIL. But do not colours appear to the eye as coexisting
38 1|  without, when you acknowledge colours do not; the sensible appearance
39 1|        eyes any more than some colours and figures, with a certain
40 3|       likewise my opinion that colours and other sensible qualities
41 3|       same self, perceive both colours and sounds: that a colour
42 3|     their existence: that real colours and sounds are nothing but
43 3|     sounds, tastes, smells, or colours; or for the regular course
44 3|  objections from the change of colours in a pigeon’s neck, or the