PHIL 111 Lecture Notes - Direct And Indirect Realism, Billiard Ball, Hylas
27 Feb 2014
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Was an empiricist like locke: all knowledge originates in experience. Do sensible objects have an existence distinct from their being perceived? (principles. Concerns the status of objects in the external world. But god perceives objects, maintaining their existence. Readers of berkeley have reconstructed his argument along the following lines: argument one, we perceive ordinary objects (mountains, houses, etc. , we perceive only ideas, therefore, ordinary objects are ideas. This argument is valid, so the question concerns its soundness. Thus we have to ask whether premises (1) and (2) are true. (1) seems incontrovertible. This version has ??? for step (3), as it is not clear what follows from (1) and (2) The question is whether berkeley"s opponents are entitled to reformulate the original argument into the above version. Hylas ( matter ) argues for the proposition that matter exists independent of the mind. Philonous ( lover of mind ) argues that matter cannot exist independent of the mind.
