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Page 136
... sensations . I answer : Men , knowing they perceived several ideas whereof they themselves were not the author , nor depending on their wills , first maintained that those ideas had an existence independent of and external to the mind ...
... sensations . I answer : Men , knowing they perceived several ideas whereof they themselves were not the author , nor depending on their wills , first maintained that those ideas had an existence independent of and external to the mind ...
Page 172
... sensations ; by not being , is that we lack them . These sensations then are its sole meaning . Berkeley doesn't deny matter , then ; he simply tells us what it consists of . It is a true name for just so much in the way of sensations ...
... sensations ; by not being , is that we lack them . These sensations then are its sole meaning . Berkeley doesn't deny matter , then ; he simply tells us what it consists of . It is a true name for just so much in the way of sensations ...
Page 262
... sensations , feelings , and strivings or actions . Scientific analysis leads to matter and the smallest constituents and motions of matter . It is impossible for the mind to bring these two spheres of reality into a rational relation ...
... sensations , feelings , and strivings or actions . Scientific analysis leads to matter and the smallest constituents and motions of matter . It is impossible for the mind to bring these two spheres of reality into a rational relation ...
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