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George Berkeley
Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

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1 1| plain dictates of nature and common sense, I find my understanding 2 1| fantastical, more repugnant to Common Sense, or a more manifest 3 1| paradoxes and repugnances to Common Sense, than I who believe 4 1| appear most agreeable to Common Sense, and remote from Scepticism?~ 5 1| sensible sound, or SOUND in the common acceptation of the word, 6 1| sound something oddly; but common language, you know, is framed 7 1| light of departing from common phrases and opinions; it 8 1| notions are widest of the common road, and most repugnant 9 1| this consistent either with common sense, or with what you 10 2| all the absurdities of the common hypothesis, in making a 11 2| signification attached to a common name in any language? For 12 2| should think it very absurd. Common custom is the standard of 13 2| doth not MATTER, in the common current acceptation of the 14 2| philosopher, or even like a man of common sense, to pretend to believe 15 2| INSTRUMENT?~HYL. That which is common to all particular instruments 16 2| notion.~PHIL. Is it not common to all instruments, that 17 2| with even in the lowest of common conversation? But, perhaps 18 2| that it is not. In the common sense of the word MATTER, 19 2| unsettle and change the common signification of words?~ 20 2| not always confined to the common acceptation of a term.~PHIL. 21 2| this now mentioned is the common received sense among philosophers 22 3| Hylas, to appeal to the common sense of the world for the 23 3| shocking, and contrary to the common sense of men. Ask the fellow 24 3| judgment of men who had plain common sense, without the prejudices 25 3| misapply names contrary to the common use of language?~HYL. Well 26 3| I endeavour to vindicate Common Sense. It is true, in doing 27 3| and ways of speech not common. But, if my notions are 28 3| rightly understanding the common language of men, speaking 29 3| conveniency and dispatch in the common actions of life, without 30 3| all. It is no more than common custom, which you know is 31 3| things continues the same. In common talk, the objects of our 32 3| it exactly suits with the common, natural, and undebauched 33 3| not this agreeable to the common notions of divines? or, 34 3| appear most agreeable to Common Sense and remote from Scepticism. 35 3| mind: but are never used by common people; or, if ever, it 36 3| should be never missed in common talk. And in philosophical 37 3| or so agreeable to the common sense of mankind, and Holy 38 3| point, bring men back to Common Sense.~ ~


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