What is Berkeley's Immaterialism? What are its problems?

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Philosophy

 

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Thomas M

 

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July 6, 2016

 

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Assuming for the moment that there is a material external world, the sense-object that we perceive, is not the extended, solid, blue chair. The structure of this external chair has no 'blueness', the blueness is a state of the consciousness which has been caused by the mind's perception of the chair...
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Berkeley concludes that the 'proper objects' of the senses can only be of the mind, with no exceptions. Following from this, if the 'sensible objects' that we perceive are of the mind, then we can not claim that there is an external world. It can be seen that this argument is not a disproof of the external world of matter, it simply claims that the hypothesis of a material world is not reasonably grounded on anything knowable...
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