PHIL-200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Direct And Indirect Realism, Bundle Theory, Regress Argument
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Reductio ad absurdum: berkeley rejects arguments which can be reduced to. Anti realists can: a) deny that we have access to what the realist posits (an epistemic argument: Hylus" definition of scepticism: any position that denies something (x) that common sense tells. The realist wants to mark a distinction between what is mind independent and mind dependent. Hylus begins by claiming that it is too bad that philosophers have ended up being enemies of common sense, by being sceptics. Common sense tells us plainly that things are true, but philosophers debate and reject these things. us is true. Argues that we should believe what is intuitive to be true. According to hylus" definition, material substances are real because they appear to be real via common sense. Philonous then, would be a sceptic since he denies the existence of something which is supported by common sense. sceptics. independent.
