PHL100Y1 Lecture 36: 36 Berkeley
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John locke and empiricism: primary vs. When i perceive an object, i see a lot of subjective/secondary qualities, like colour, relative size, etc. It has primary qualities as well, like quantity, dimensions, etc. The veil of ideas/perception: i may see a totally different, say, colour than you do. Locke: if i see a table in front of me, it"s a table: corpustles: tiny little magic particles that whatever. All we know is what we have direct experience of; our mental process alone, we have no direct experience of anything else. Bishop berkeley: immaterialist philosopher (matter doesn"t exist: knowledge/ideas: informed by sensory perception, introspection, and combination, objects: consist of bundles of perceptions, qualities, etc. Do the ideas within our minds actually re ect material, physical objects: nope! No objects, our perceptions don"t (necessarily) match any material, physical reality: to exist is to be perceived. To say something exists outside of perception is paradoxical: if a tree .
