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Berkeley's idealism (Master Argument (Problems with the role played…

- - - - C1. Therefore, all colours are appearances, not properties of physical objects
      - P1.A cloud from a distance appears pink, but up close it loses its colour
    - - P1. What looks small to us looks big to a mite
      - C4. Therefore, the primary qualities of objects are just as mind-dependent as secondary
    - - P1. The apparent size shape and motion of an object varies
      - C1. Therefore, the apparent size, shape and motion cannot be objective properties of material objects. But a material object can still have some specific size, shape and motion independent of the mind
    - - P1. Everything we perceive is either a primary or secondary quality
      - C1. Therefore, nothing that we perceive exists independently of the mind: the objects of perception are entirely mind-dependent
- - - - P1. Everything we perceive is a primary or secondary quality
      - C5. Therefore, mind-dependent physical objects do not exist
    - - P1. All we perceive are primary or secondary qualities, not mind-independent objects
      - C1. Therefore, our experience supports idealism, not realism
- - - - What I perceive is a copy of the idea in God's mind
      - The ideas of physical objects exist in God's mind not as perceptions, but as parts of God's understanding. The same is true of sensations. So while God doesn't feel pain, he knows what it is for us to undergo these experiences
      - What I perceive, which changes is, what God wills me to perceive. The whole of creation exists in God's understanding eternally; things may begin their existence when God decrees they should become perceptible to intelligent creatures.
- - - - Reply- in illusions we aren't misperceiving- what we perceive in the case of the half-submerged pencil in the case of the half-submerged pencil is crooked
        
        This is misleading if we infer that the pencil would be crooked if we touched it or pulled it out of the water
        
        Reply- there is no appearance-reality distinction- the reason we regard it as illusory is because it allows us to make false inferences
      - Since we perceive ideas
    - - Berkeley
        
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        Hallucinations = products of imagination
        
        2 criteria mark off
        
        dim , irregular and confused
        
        Not coherently connected with the rest of our perceptual experience
        
        Objection- these criteria mark off a difference in degree but hallucinations mark a difference in kind
        
        Involuntary unlike imagination
- - - - C4. The complexity, regularity, etc. of my experience indicates that this mind is God
      - P1. The mind is that which (actively) perceives, thinks and wills, while ideas are passive