There was a smell, i.e. there was a smell perceiv'd. Thus we see that common speech confirms my doctrine.
T.
No broken intervals of death or annihilation. Those intervals are nothing; each person's time being measured to him by his own ideas.
I.
We are frequently puzzl'd and at a loss in obtaining clear and determin'd meanings of words commonly in use, & that because we imagine words stand for abstract general ideas which are altogether inconceivable.
I.
“A stone is a stone.” This a nonsensical proposition, and such as the solitary man would never think on. Nor do I believe he would ever think on this: “The whole is equal to its parts,” &c.
E.
Let it not be said that I take away existence. I only declare the meaning of the word, so far as I can comprehend it.
I.