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Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues

George Berkeley

Form
Form Philosophy
Year
Year 1710
Pages
Pages 250

Put your hand near enough to a fire and the heat becomes pain. Hylas grants it, and Philonous has him: pain can exist nowhere but in a mind, so where is the heat?

an idea can be like nothing but an idea; a colour or figure can be like nothing but another colour or figure
Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues, George Berkeley

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