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Single Idea 12402

[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / c. Empirical idealism ]

Full Idea

(continued from 12401) ..But if he's a student of Berkeley,/ One thing will emerge, rather starkly,/ That he ought to believe/ What his senses perceive,/ No matter how dimly or darkly. [Leslie Johnson]

Gist of Idea

..But if he's a student of Berkeley...

Source

Will Sommers (talk [2019])

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The 20 ideas from 'talk'

15105

F(x) walked into a bar. The barman said.. [Sommers,W]

12408

Sartre to Waitress: Coffee with no cream, please... [Sommers,W]

12397

Said Plato: 'The things that we feel... [Sommers,W]

12409

The philosopher Berkeley once said.. [Sommers,W]

14694

"My dog's got synaesthesia." How does he smell? ..... [Sommers,W]

12401

A toper who spies in the distance... [Sommers,W]

12410

There once was a man who said 'Damn!... [Sommers,W]

12407

Barman to Descartes: Would you like another drink?... [Sommers,W]

12399

There was a young student called Fred... [Sommers,W]

20963

A philosopher and his wife are out for a drive... [Sommers,W]

12404

Dear Sir, Your astonishment's odd.... [Sommers,W]

12403

There once was a man who said: 'God... [Sommers,W]

12402

..But if he's a student of Berkeley... [Sommers,W]

12405

'If you're aristocratic,' said Nietzsche... [Sommers,W]

9392	How do behaviourists greet each other? [Sommers,W]

9391	Why do anarchists drink herbal tea? [Sommers,W]

12400

Cries the maid: 'You must marry me Hume!'... [Sommers,W]

16527

Causation - we all thought we knew it/ Till Hume came along and saw through it/…. [Sommers,W]

17592

The barman called 'Time!', and Augustine said..... [Sommers,W]

15208

The past, present and future walked into a bar.... [Sommers,W]