...that we can apprehend, either by sense or reflection. That the things I see with mine eyes and touch with my hands do exist, really exist, I make not the...there is no damage done to the rest of mankind, who, 1 dare say, will never miss it. The atheist indeed will want the colour of an empty name to support...

...diligently in all times. Afterwards, men made use of the same word metaphorically, for the knowledge * "The only thing whose existence we deny is that which philosophers call ratti-ror corporeal substance. And in doing of this, there is no damage done to 'b* ret of mankind,...

...that we can apprehend either by sense or reflexion. That the things I see with mine eyes and touch with my hands, do exist, really exist, I make not the least question. — It will be urged that thus much at least is true, to wit that we take away all corporeal substances....

...\ we can apprehend, either by sense or reflection. That the things I 1 see with mine eyes and touch with my hands do exist, really exist. I make not the least question. The only thmg whose existence we deny. ?s that which philosophers call^matter or corporeal substance. " AmTln...

...that we can apprehend either by sensation or reflection. That the things I see with my eyes and touch with my hands do exist, really exist, I make not the least question. The only thing whose existence I deny is that which philosophers call matter or corporeal substance. And in doing this there ia no...

...then quoted (at p. 67) as saying in his treatise — ' That the things I see with my eyes and touch with my hands do exist, really exist, I make not the least doubt.' Reading these two passages together, an ordinary materialist reader would say at once — Reid...

...whose existence I deny is that which philosophers call matter or corporeal substance. And in doing this there is no damage done to the rest of mankind, who, I dare say, will never miss it." Notwithstanding all these declarations and explanations, there is still, even at this moment, a general...

...in die Philosophie, §. 39. h Intellectual Powers, Essay ii. ch. 19. I see with mine eyes and touch with my hands do exist, really exist, I make not the...question. The only thing whose existence we deny, is that C~ which philosophers call matter, or corporeal sub- *»J^"' stance. And in doing of this, there is...

...reflection. That the things I see with my eyes, and touch with my hands, do really exist, I make no question. The only thing whose existence we deny,...which philosophers call matter, or corporeal substance :" — " the matter philosophers contend for, ia an incomprehensible somewhat which hath none of those...

...an absolute existence distinct from being perceived by God, and exterior to all minds." And again, " the only thing whose existence we deny, is that which philosophers call matter, or corporeal substance " (sub-stans). Sentences that must surely have been overlooked by many of his critics. Passages similar...