Dialogue

 1 1|        Pray, Hylas, what do you mean by a SCEPTIC?~HYL. I mean
 2 1|       mean by a SCEPTIC?~HYL. I mean what all men mean—one that
 3 1|        HYL. I mean what all men mean—one that doubts of everything.~
 4 1|       PHIL. What things? Do you mean the principles and theorems
 5 1|       what I desire.~PHIL. What mean you by Sensible Things?~
 6 1|          Can you imagine that I mean anything else?~PHIL. Pardon
 7 1|     that by SENSIBLE THINGS you mean those only which can be
 8 1|       that by SENSIBLE THINGS I mean those only which are perceived
 9 1|        their real existence you mean a subsistence exterior to
10 1|         being perceived?~HYL. I mean a real absolute being, distinct
11 1|      the air, if by the AIR you mean a senseless substance existing
12 1|     SOLIDITY; either you do not mean any sensible quality by
13 1|        PHIL. What object do you mean? the object of the senses?~
14 1|         take me wrong. I do not mean that Matter is SPREAD in
15 2|         I know not what way you mean.~HYL. I mean the way of
16 2|       what way you mean.~HYL. I mean the way of accounting for
17 2|        whether by the BRAIN you mean any sensible thing.~HYL.
18 2|     What else think you I could mean?~PHIL. Sensible things are
19 2|         an INSTRUMENT, I do not mean altogether nothing. It is
20 2|        up the point.~PHIL. What mean you by the general nature
21 2|        would fain know what you mean by affirming that matter
22 2|      first point: by OCCASION I mean an inactive unthinking being,
23 2|        it to exist, or what you mean by its EXISTENCE?~HYL. It
24 2|    inference shall be, that you mean nothing at all; that you
25 2|      have been shewed either to mean nothing at all, or, if anything,
26 3|        better things.~PHIL. You mean, they KNOW that they KNOW
27 3|    indeed, who by SNOW and fire mean certain external, unperceived,
28 3|       out of the mind, I do not mean my mind in particular, but
29 3|          Farther, I know what I mean by the terms I AND MYSELF;
30 3|          Farther, I know what I mean when I affirm that there
31 3|       of the world, I dare say, mean no more)—then I am more
32 3|   active being, I am obliged to mean a Spirit. Beside, what can
33 3|      HYL. In the premise I only mean that the motion is proportional
34 3| existence of Matter?~PHIL. What mean you, Hylas, by the PHENOMENA?~
35 3|        by the PHENOMENA?~HYL. I mean the appearances which I
36 3|        you, I know not what you mean by THE ABSTRACTED IDEA OF
37 3|         principles;—EXTERNAL, I MEAN, TO YOUR OWN MIND: though
38 3|         by the word CHERRY you, mean an unknown nature, distinct
39 3|       question. If by IDEAS you mean fictions and fancies of
40 3|       no ideas. If by IDEAS you mean immediate objects of the
41 3|      their existence, we do not mean this with regard to God,
42 3|        being of a God, I do not mean an obscure general Cause