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Primary qualities like extension and motion exist only in the mind, as secondary ones do
Drawn from what George Berkeley said
What George Berkeley actually said
- George Berkeley Anglo-Irish philosopher and bishop (1685 to 1753)
In short, extension, figure, and motion, abstracted from all other qualities, are inconceivable. Where therefore the other sensible qualities are, there must these be also, to wit, in the mind and nowhere else.
Where this was said
↗A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)gutenberg.org
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