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Single Idea 3936
[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / c. Empirical idealism
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Full Idea
Time is measured by the succession of ideas in our minds.
Gist of Idea
Time is measured by the succession of ideas in our minds
Source
George Berkeley (Three Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous [1713], I p.172)
Book Ref
Berkeley,George: 'The Principles of Human Knowledge etc.', ed/tr. Warnock,G.J. [Fontana 1962], p.172
A Reaction
But we distinguish between subjective time (which flies when you are having fun), and objective time, judged from observation of clocks and nature.
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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