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George Berkeley Existence Of Matter
1,120 wordsHume, Kant and the 18 th Century Paper Topic # 3 George Berkeley held that all the qualities of the object depend of the mind. Since objects have stable and regular existence, the mind they depend on must be divine rather than human (Immaterialism). In Berkeley's view, therefore, the existence of a divine mind follows directly from the commonsense belief that physical objects exist when no one perceives them it is but to look into your own thoughts, and so trying whether you can conceive it poss...
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Taj Mahal Ontological Argument
9,023 wordsHow doesDescarte 2 Descartes How does Descartes try to extricate himself from the sceptical doubts that he has raised? Does he succeed? by Tom Nuttall [All page references and quotations from the Meditations are taken from the 1995 Everyman edition] In the Meditations, Descartes embarks upon what Bernard Williams has called the project of Pure Enquiry to discover certain, indubitable foundations for knowledge. By subjecting everything to doubt Descartes hoped to discover whatever was immune to i...
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