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How can this argument by the philosopher Berkeley in favor of idealism be resisted?
His argument is rather likely saying that temperature is a construct of thermometers. Let's accept point 2) and agree that colours, scents and so on are mental constructs. Must it follow that ...
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How can this argument by the philosopher Berkeley in favor of idealism be resisted?
Re. "(1) If primary qualities cannot be abstracted from secondary qualities, then primary qualities cannot exist apart from secondary qualities."
Argument 1 is countered by Heidegger in his ...
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What is the relation between idealism and science?
Idealism - at it's most general form - is a class of nonconventional (relative to mainstream science) views, that a system is something more that the sum of its parts. It comes in many flavors and ...
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What would it mean for time not to be real?
I think your intuition is self-evidently correct- animals must have some experience of time just as they must have some experience of space. So either Kant's claim was incorrect or perhaps he had ...
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What would it mean for time not to be real?
The relationship of time to space has been known since the appearance of Special Relativity. The relativity of simultaneity means that if an observer observes a succession of events then another ...
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