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Single Idea 3930
[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / c. Empirical idealism
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Full Idea
That there is no such thing as what philosophers call 'material substance', I am seriously persuaded.
Gist of Idea
There is no such thing as 'material substance'
Source
George Berkeley (Three Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous [1713], I p.150)
Book Ref
Berkeley,George: 'The Principles of Human Knowledge etc.', ed/tr. Warnock,G.J. [Fontana 1962], p.150
A Reaction
I'm sorry, but I can't do with this. It confuses epistemology with ontology. Ontology is a matter of judgement; epistemology is the evidence on which we base it. We know sensations; personally I judge that there are material substances. What about you?
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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