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Single Idea 2501

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

Full Idea

Berkeley seems to have believed that tables and chairs are logically homogeneous with afterimages. I assume that he was wrong to believe this.

Gist of Idea

Berkeley seems to have mistakenly thought that chairs are the same as after-images

Source

Jerry A. Fodor (In a Critical Condition [2000], Ch.16)

Book Ref

Fodor,Jerry A.: 'In Critical Condition' [MIT 2000], p.192