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Single Idea 1103
[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / c. Empirical idealism
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Full Idea
Berkeley thinks 'to be is to be perceived', and only God provides continuity. He has simply confused the experience of perception with the thing being perceived. Ideas have content.
Gist of Idea
'To be is to be perceived' is a simple confusion of experience with its objects
Source
comment on George Berkeley (Three Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous [1713]) by Bertrand Russell - Problems of Philosophy
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'The Problems of Philosophy' [OUP 1995]
The
15 ideas
with the same theme
[we are trapped inside our own experiences]:
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1103
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'To be is to be perceived' is a simple confusion of experience with its objects
[Russell on Berkeley]
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6403
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For Berkelely, reality is ideas and a community of minds, including God's
[Berkeley, by Grayling]
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3930
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There is no such thing as 'material substance'
[Berkeley]
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3936
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Time is measured by the succession of ideas in our minds
[Berkeley]
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3939
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I conceive a tree in my mind, but I cannot prove that its existence can be conceived outside a mind
[Berkeley]
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3945
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There is nothing in nature which needs the concept of matter to explain it
[Berkeley]
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3947
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Perceptions are ideas, and ideas exist in the mind, so objects only exist in the mind
[Berkeley]
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6723
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The 'esse' of objects is 'percipi', and they can only exist in minds
[Berkeley]
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6724
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The only substance is spirit, or that which perceives
[Berkeley]
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6732
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When I shut my eyes, the things I saw may still exist, but in another mind
[Berkeley]
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2501
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Berkeley seems to have mistakenly thought that chairs are the same as after-images
[Fodor]
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12404
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Dear Sir, Your astonishment's odd....
[Sommers,W]
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12403
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There once was a man who said: 'God...
[Sommers,W]
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12402
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..But if he's a student of Berkeley...
[Sommers,W]
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12409
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The philosopher Berkeley once said..
[Sommers,W]
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