A Third Defense of an Argument Made Use of in a Letter to MR Dodwel; To Prove the Immateriality and Natural Immortality of the Soul. in a Letter to - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1708. Excerpt: ... A Third D E FEN S E 'i !.. O F. A N ARGUMENT/dv. SIR,. IN my last Reply I persuaded rriy self I had set the Question between us in so clear a Light, that there would have been no need of any new Debate, or of giving our Readers any further trouble in this Matter. But seeing you have found out a seemingly new Dijiin&iox, by which you still indeavour to evade the Force of the Argument 3 And, though your Evasion seems to Me indeed extremely slight, yet seeing you have thought sit to insist upon it in such a manner, as if you your self really believed there was some Strength and Weight in it 5 I stnll indeavour to gratify the sincere Desire you profess to have of discovering the Truth, by mowing briefly the weakness A 2 and and inconclusiveness of what you have advanced in your Reflexion r. In order to prove that Thinking cannot possibly be a Quality or Power of Matter 5 I said that all the Qualities or Powers, which either Are in Matter, whether they be known or unknown 5 or are vulgarly Ascribed to it 5 must of necessity be either 1st. Real Qualities, truly and properly inhering in the Subject to which they are ascribed: Such as are Magnitude and Motion in Matter. These are always the Sums or Aggregates of Powers or Qualities of the same Kind, inhering distinctly in the several, Parts of the Material Subject. Which, not being true of Thinking, 'tia manifest that Thinking cannot be a Power or Quality of this Sort, inhering in a System of Matter.. Or idly. Qualities, not really inhering in the Subject to which they are usually ascribed, but being indeed Modes excited and residing in some other Subject: Such as are Colours, Sounds, and all those which are commonly called the Sensible Qualities of Matter. These do not exist at all in That Subject to which they ...

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