Philosophy 2500F/G Final: Berekly - Study Notes.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 2500F/G
• Professor: Prof

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Qualities: doesn"t think external things are real fabrications of the mind pushing common sense. Naive realism: standard view that our perceptions are true in reality qualities we perceive are true. Nothing like an idea but an idea, an object is an idea therefore every idea is an object these exist on their own, this is what he calls common sense. All you can trust is to believe that your senses want to deceive you, notion of external world is false and doesn"t explain all the facts of external world debate comes in secondary qualities. Assimilation distinction when something becomes assimilated extreme pain extreme heat. Things you perceive immediately, do exist, when something becomes compounded it turns to pleasure/pain. If we don"t sense something it doesn"t mean the object doesn"t exist. Argues that motion can"t be perceived to be with an external object. You can"t perceive the cause of something perspectives interpreted differently by different people.