PHIL 1110 Lecture 9: Thurs Sep 21
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The items which are immediately known in sense perception; sense data are mental. There existence depends on a mind perceiving them. Any activity of your mind shows that you exist. There is no material object, only ideal objects. All the evidence you have for objects outside yourself is sense data. Touching an object is tactile sense data, even though the object itself doesn"t exist - berkeley"s view. Mental things - minds and the things that they perceive. Berkeley"s arguments that material objects are not knowable. Knowledge of material objects are either a priori or a posteriori. Nature of knowledge is not possible to have knowledge of material objects. Obvious a priori is not possible to have knowledge of material objects a posteriori. Because an idea can only be like an idea. Therefore, it is not possible to have knowledge of material objects. Another reason to justify why premise 2 is incorrect.
