A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
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For, say you, whatever may be urged against substance or occasion, or anyother positive or relative notion of Matter, has no place at all, solong as this negative definition of Matter is adhered to. I answer, youmay, if so it shall seem good, use the word "Matter" in the same sense asother men use "nothing, " and so make those terms convertible in yourstyle. For, after all, this is what appears to me to be the result ofthat definition, the parts whereof when I consider with attention, eithercol...lectively or separate from each other, I do not find that there is anykind of effect or impression made on my mind different from what isexcited by the term nothing.
81. You will reply, perhaps, that in the fore-said definition is includedwhat doth sufficiently distinguish it from nothing--the positive abstractidea of quiddity, entity, or existence. I own, indeed, that those whopretend to the faculty of framing abstract general ideas do talk as ifthey had such an idea, which is, say they, the most abstract and generalnotion of all; that is, to me, the most incomprehensible of all others.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
For, say you, whatever may be urged against substance or occasion, or anyother positive or relative notion of Matter, has no place at all, solong as this negative definition of Matter is adhered to. I answer, youmay, if so it shall seem good, use the word "Matter" in the same sense asother men use "nothing, " and so make those terms convertible in yourstyle. For, after all, this is what appears to me to be the result ofthat definition, the parts whereof when I consider with attention, eithercol...lectively or separate from each other, I do not find that there is anykind of effect or impression made on my mind different from what isexcited by the term nothing.
81. You will reply, perhaps, that in the fore-said definition is includedwhat doth sufficiently distinguish it from nothing--the positive abstractidea of quiddity, entity, or existence. I own, indeed, that those whopretend to the faculty of framing abstract general ideas do talk as ifthey had such an idea, which is, say they, the most abstract and generalnotion of all; that is, to me, the most incomprehensible of all others.
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