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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 3. Illusion Scepticism

3944	It is possible that we could perceive everything as we do now, but nothing actually existed. [Berkeley]
	Full Idea: We might perceive all things just as we do now, though there was no matter in the world.
	From: George Berkeley (Three Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous [1713], II p.209)
	A reaction: An old Greek argument. Now we have an explanation of experience, but we wouldn't if nothing existed. Which doesn't prove that anything exists. Is some explanation always preferable to none? Cf. religion.