This I am sure, I have no idea of Existence[130], or annext to the word Existence. And if others have that's nothing to me; they can never make me sensible of it; simple ideas being incommunicable by language.
S.
Say you, the unknown substratum of volitions & ideas is something whereof I have no idea. I ask, Is there any other being which has or can have an idea of it? If there be, then it must be itself an idea; which you will think absurd.
S.
There is somewhat active in most perceptions, i.e. such as ensue upon our volitions, such as we can prevent and stop: e.g. I turn my eyes toward the sun: I open them. All this is active.
S.
Things are twofold—active or inactive. The existence of active things is to act; of inactive to be perceiv'd.
S. E.
Distinct from or without perception there is no volition; therefore neither is there existence without perception.
G.