Axiom. No word to be used without an idea.
M. P.
Our eyes and senses inform us not of the existence of matter or ideas existing without the mind[252]. They are not to be blam'd for the mistake.
I defy any man to assign a right line equal to a paraboloid, but wn look'd at thro' a microscope they may appear unequall.
M.
Newton's harangue amounts to no more than that gravity is proportional to gravity.
One can't imagine an extended thing without colour. V. Barrow, L. G.
P.
Men allow colours, sounds, &c.[253] not to exist without the mind, tho' they have no demonstration they do not. Why may they not allow my Principle with a demonstration?