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Remarks on Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge

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The design of this book is to introduce a
further distinction between being and knowing.

Our ideas exist only in the mind; whether they
are thought as being there or not. But our ideas are
all that we immediately know. Hence we immediately
know only what is in the mind. I do not
see therefore that Reid's criticism was irrelevant.

The question next is what evidence we have of
the absolute existence of matter of external qualities
and of spirit. Berkeley maintains that matter
has no meaning, or is inconceivable. It is totally invalid
as an hypothesis inasmuch as the facts the ideas

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