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Ideas for Michael Burke, George Berkeley and Michel de Montaigne

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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / c. Primary qualities

3933	Primary qualities (such as shape, solidity, mass) are held to really exist, unlike secondary qualities [Berkeley]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / e. Primary/secondary critique

6726	No one can, by abstraction, conceive extension and motion of bodies without sensible qualities [Berkeley]

6728	Motion is in the mind, since swifter ideas produce an appearance of slower motion [Berkeley]

6727	Figure and extension seem just as dependent on the observer as heat and cold [Berkeley]

3934	A mite would see its own foot as large, though we would see it as tiny [Berkeley]

3935	The apparent size of an object varies with its distance away, so that can't be a property of the object [Berkeley]

3937	'Solidity' is either not a sensible quality at all, or it is clearly relative to our senses [Berkeley]

3940	Distance is not directly perceived by sight [Berkeley]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation

6495	Berkeley's idealism resulted from fear of scepticism in representative realism [Robinson,H on Berkeley]

3957	Immediate objects of perception, which some treat as appearances, I treat as the real things themselves [Berkeley]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism

6720	Knowledge is of ideas from senses, or ideas of the mind, or operations on sensations [Berkeley]

3953	Real things and imaginary or dreamed things differ because the latter are much fainter [Berkeley]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism

3938	Geometry is originally perceived by senses, and so is not purely intellectual [Berkeley]