1.Berkeley believed that when we talk about something we are talking about the actual being itself, In reality we are talking about how the being is perceived by someone. Berkeley stated that we can never truly know the true nature or reality of any object because we can never do anything beyond experience our perception of said object.
2. Berkeley thought that Material was a confusing term that we should just do away with altogether. Reality in Berkeley's mind could be considered objective as long as everyone perceived everything else the same way. We shouldn't call it material object any more, we should call it perceived objects.
3. Berkeley claims that the only thing he has to work with in the quest to determine the existence of people is language. Since Berkeley can hear people speak and ask them of what they perceive, and from this we can learn that others peoples perception objects is similar.
4. Any Knowledge of the world is gained through direct perception, The error comes from thinking about what others perceive. Knowledge of the world of people can be perfected by stripping away all thought and langauge from their perception.
5. God produces the experience of perception for us, and with his infinite mind can create the same experience for everyone to perceive. Since gods mind is infinite the object/experience (to a lesser extent) is always there
6. Dr. Johnson Kicked a rock and exclaimed "I refute this!" because what Dr. Johnson tired to refute was an idea in his own mind and not that of something purely physical. He was assigning an idea to the rock that can't be shown or given to other people solely through perception.
7. John Locke believed that primary qualities were objective qualities that every object has that are independent of personal experience (length, width, etc.). While secondary qualities on the other hand are completely subjective in nature, (taste, smell, etc.)
8. John Locke showed how water's primary quality is not it's temperature by preposing a thought experiment consisting of two buckets of water one hot and one cold. He then states that once our hands have sat in their respective bucket for long enough time, and then we put both our hands into a bucket full of lukewarm water, both of the hands will respond with different tempatures. The one in the hot water will say the lukewarm is hot and the one in the cold will say that the lukewarm water is cold. This is John Locke states is how we know that tempature in water is subjective in nature (or secondary) and not objective (primary).
9. Berkeley then argues to Locke that if we know their our some subjective qualities of an object, what makes part of it objective? Berkeley states that size (which is considered a primary quality of all objects) changes for objectives based on the distance of the viewer and the size of the viewer his/her self, which makes size subjective by nature.
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