Excerpt from Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous The contents of the three Dialogues. Which are a popular presentation of the Principles. And were written in refutation of the objections that had been raised to the new doctrine of sensible as distinguished from absolute things. Propounded in the earlier work. May be briefly summarised as follows: The First Dialogue aims to show the repugnancy or contra dictery nature of the philosophical dogma of the absolute existence of a material reality or world-in-itself. Independent of a perceiving or conceiving mind; the argument being that under no circum stances can such a material world be perceived either immediately or mediately. The Second Dialogue seeks to show that the exist ence of this metaphysical. Supersensible world of matter also can not be reached by inference. That is. Cannot be demonstrated. The Third Dialogue is devoted to the refutation of objections; for example. That the new doctrine is skeptical; that. With absolute material substance. It also implicitly disproves the existence of absolute spiritual substance. That is to say. Of the ego; etc.. Etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.