PHILOS 2XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Hylas, Hypokeimenon, John Locke
21 Feb 2020
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Berkeley: three dialogues between hylas and philonous first dialogue. Recall that hylas and philonous agreed that sensible things exist in a perceiving mind. 1) primary and secondary qualities are inseparable in thought. , 2)in the same way that secondary qualities depend on minds, so too do primary qualities, and therefore. Hylas tries to argue against this once more by highlighting the existence of absolute extension; i. e. extension abstracted from are relative features bodies (viz. big/small, swift/slow, etc. ) Hylas is pointing to the lockean notion of substance as something i know not what" that must exist because qualities cannot be conceived to exist without a support". Philonous pushes against this thesis first by arguing that it involves an infinite regress of subsistence. Hylas: i think there are two kinds of objects, the one perceived immediately, which are likewise called ideas, the other are real things or external objects perceive by the mediation of ideas, which are their images and representations.
