
John Campbell on Berkeley's Puzzle
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The Nature of Conscious Experience
Berkeley was a theist, so he thought he could have knowledge of God. But all you can ever form the conception of according to Berkeley is families of ideas. So where does that leave us on Berkeley's picture of the world? How do we relate to anything? Frankly leaves us in pretty bad shape. All we have are our ideas. We ourselves are not physical things. There is no coherent conception of matter. There is only the generation of ideas by souls. That's all you canForm the conception of. At this point, I think most of us feel that something has gone wrong,. You think, well, could we just go over the reasoning there and ask how we
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