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George Berkeley
Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

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sound

   Dialogue
1 1| air-pump sends forth no sound. The air, therefore, must 2 1| be thought the subject of sound.~PHIL. What reason is there 3 1| in the air, we perceive a sound greater or lesser, according 4 1| the air, we never hear any sound at all.~PHIL. And granting 5 1| granting that we never hear a sound but when some motion is 6 1| infer from thence, that the sound itself is in the air.~HYL. 7 1| the mind the sensation of SOUND. For, striking on the drum 8 1| with the sensation called SOUND.~PHIL. What! is sound then 9 1| called SOUND.~PHIL. What! is sound then a sensation?~HYL. I 10 1| certainly.~PHIL. How then can sound, being a sensation, exist 11 1| distinguish, Philonous, between sound as it is perceived by us, 12 1| same thing) between the sound we immediately perceive, 13 1| are you sure then that sound is really nothing but motion?~ 14 1| therefore agrees to real sound, may with truth be attributed 15 1| belong only to sensible sound, or SOUND in the common 16 1| only to sensible sound, or SOUND in the common acceptation 17 1| of the word, but not to sound in the real and philosophic 18 1| then there are two sorts of sound—the one vulgar, or that 19 1| inferences you draw me into sound something oddly; but common 20 1| what it will—figure, or sound, or colour, it seems alike 21 1| immediately I perceive only the sound; but, from the experience 22 1| experience I have had that such a sound is connected with a coach, 23 1| nothing can be HEARD BUT SOUND; and the coach is not then 24 1| is not AUDIBLE, be like a SOUND? In a word, can anything 25 2| nerves, and the sensations of sound or colour in the mind? Or 26 3| triangle, a colour, or a sound. The Mind, Spirit, or Soul 27 3| colour cannot perceive a sound, nor a sound a colour: that 28 3| perceive a sound, nor a sound a colour: that I am therefore 29 3| distinct from colour and sound; and, for the same reason, 30 3| oddly the proposition may sound in words, yet it includes 31 3| difference consist in a sound? If you should say, We differed 32 3| not deceived by words; but sound your own thoughts. And in


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