Berkeley and the Primary Qualities: Idealization vs. Abstraction

Philosophia 44 (4):1289-1303 (2016)
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In the First of the Three Dialogues, Berkeley’s Hylas, responding to Philonous’s question whether extension and motion are separable from secondary qualities, says: What! Is it not an easy matter, to consider extension and motion by themselves,... Pray how do the mathematicians treat of them?

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