Dialogue Between Philonous And Hylas

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In the Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley, the conflict surrounds the two characters Hylas and Philonous on the notion of the objects existing independent of its perceivers. The debate on whether an object needs to have a perceiving mind in order to validate its existence is a proposition that Hylas attempts to defend this view, that contradictory to Philonous, there is more than what is perceived in the mind. In the Second Dialogue, Hylas is firm in his belief to Philonous that even if we are not capable in conceiving it is not proof that a certain thing does not exist. There is something much more than ideas in the mind and for Hylas these objects cannot maintain their existence without the possibility of matter,