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The God Watches The Quad Quip
- A witty epigraph joked that God always watches the quad so the tree continues to exist.
- This quip encapsulates Berkeley's theistic answer to object permanence without observers.
Science Reveals An Alien World
- The scientific revolution showed the world as alien: mostly empty space and tiny particles, unlike our everyday appearances.
- This gap forces a puzzle about how our perceptions connect to that scientific description.
Berkeley's Radical Skeptical Conclusion
- Berkeley argued that if all we have are sensations, we cannot form the idea of objects existing independently.
- He concluded that the external world is an illusion and we only have ideas.