Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century
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Softly, good Hylas. What if it should prove that you, who hold there is, are by virtue of that opinion a greater skeptic, and maintain more paradoxes and repugnances to com- mon sense, than I who believe no such thing? Hylas. You may as soon persuade me the part is greater than the whole as that, in order to avoid absurdity and skepticism, I should ever be obliged to give up my opinion in this point. Philonous. Well, then, are you content to admit that opinion for true which, upon examination, ...shall appear most agreeable to common sense, and remote from skepticism? 232 GEORGE BERKELEY Bylas. With all my heart. Since you are for raising disputes about the plainest things in nature, I am content for once to hear what you have to say. Philonous. Pray, Hylas, what do you mean by a skeptic? Hylas. I mean what all men mean, one that doubts of everything. Philonous. He, then, who entertains no doubt concerning some particular point, with regard to that point cannot be thought a skeptic. Hylas.
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