Philonous

Stirred by those words I began to read The Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous.

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

Then the bishop, under the name of Philonous, laughs at him, and poor Hylas, finding that he has said that extension is the subject of extension, and has therefore talked nonsense, remains quite confused, acknowledges that he understands nothing at all of the matter; that there is no such thing as body; that the natural world does not exist, and that there is none but an intellectual world.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (many editions).

Sense-Data Huemer, Michael 2007

Three Dialogues concerning Hylas and Philonous, many editions.

Epistemological Problems of Perception BonJour, Laurence 2007

Hylas should only have said to Philonous: We know nothing of the subject of this extension, solidity, divisibility, mobility, figure, etc.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

I beg your pardon, Philonous, for not meeting you sooner.

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous 2005

But the denying Matter, Philonous, or corporeal Substance; there is the point.

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous 2005

Not so fast, Philonous: you say you cannot conceive how sensible things should exist without the mind.

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous 2005

You must distinguish, Philonous, between sound as it is perceived by us, and as it is in itself; or (which is the same thing) between the sound we immediately perceive, and that which exists without us.

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous 2005

Ay, Philonous, but they suppose an external archetype, to which referring their several ideas they may truly be said to perceive the same thing.

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous 2005