We perceive, on reflection, that to be real, or even barely to exist, must be to fall within sentience … . Find any piece of existence, take up anything that any one could possibly call a fact, or could in any sense assert to have being, and then judge if it does not consist in sentient experience. Try to discover any sense in which you can still continue to speak of it, when all perception and feeling have been removed; or point out any fragment of its matter, any aspect of its being, which is not derived from and is not still relative to this source. When the experiment is made strictly, I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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| — | F.H. Bradley, ‘Appearance and Reality’, Chapter 14 |
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