Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Stilpo, Paul Boghossian and George Berkeley
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / c. Primary qualities
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Primary qualities (such as shape, solidity, mass) are held to really exist, unlike secondary qualities [Berkeley]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / e. Primary/secondary critique
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No one can, by abstraction, conceive extension and motion of bodies without sensible qualities [Berkeley]
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Motion is in the mind, since swifter ideas produce an appearance of slower motion [Berkeley]
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Figure and extension seem just as dependent on the observer as heat and cold [Berkeley]
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A mite would see its own foot as large, though we would see it as tiny [Berkeley]
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The apparent size of an object varies with its distance away, so that can't be a property of the object [Berkeley]
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'Solidity' is either not a sensible quality at all, or it is clearly relative to our senses [Berkeley]
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Distance is not directly perceived by sight [Berkeley]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation
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Berkeley's idealism resulted from fear of scepticism in representative realism [Robinson,H on Berkeley]
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Immediate objects of perception, which some treat as appearances, I treat as the real things themselves [Berkeley]
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