MATTER

But I have been so long accustomed to the term MATTER that I know not how to part with it: to say, there is no MATTER in the world, is still shocking to me.

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous 2005

But I have been so long accustomed to the term MATTER that I know not how to part with it: to say, there is no MATTER in the world, is still shocking to me.

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous George Berkeley 1719

Powers cannot subsist by themselves, there is some subject of them necessarily to be admitted; which I call MATTER, and you call

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous 2005

And, as these Powers cannot subsist by themselves, there is some subject of them necessarily to be admitted; which I call MATTER, and you call SPIRIT.

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous George Berkeley 1719

What DOES MATTER is the PERCEPTION he perpetuated by arriving late.

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One would think, therefore, so long as the names of all particular things, with the TERMS SENSIBLE, SUBSTANCE, BODY, STUFF, and the like, are retained, the word MATTER should be never missed in common talk.

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous 2005

You may, indeed, if you please, annex to the word MATTER a contrary meaning to what is vulgarly received; and tell me you understand by it, an unextended, thinking, active being, which is the cause of our ideas.

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous 2005

Well but, Philonous, since I am content to give up the notion of an unthinking substance exterior to the mind, I think you ought not to deny me the privilege of using the word MATTER as I please, and annexing it to a collection of sensible qualities subsisting only in the mind.

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous 2005

With all my heart: retain the word MATTER, and apply it to the objects of sense, if you please; provided you do not attribute to them any subsistence distinct from their being perceived.

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous 2005

Now let me ask you two questions: FIRST, Whether it be agreeable to the usage either of philosophers or others to give the name MATTER to an unextended active being?

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous 2005