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This 4 page paper outlines the basic elements of George Berkeley's philosophy. This paper creates a comparative view of Berkeley and Descartes. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the world is only so because man perceives it. At the same time, most philosophers do not argue that there is a distinct difference between the immediate characteristics of
an object and the ideas or notions that create the object. Descartes also recognized the importance of perception in the development of mans knowledge and mans acceptance of basic
physical characteristics in the world. Descartes recognized the importance of the physical and of deriving knowledge through acceptance of the sensations of the mind and the perceptions of those
things that exist in mans direct field of understanding. Berkeley, though, argues that notions of the imagination can sometimes be created
out of abstractions of the senses, and that this lends itself to a different characterization of an object relative to this kind of notion. If the apple is first
initially perceived by an individual, and very basic perceptions are formed, the person stores this information for use the next time they approach an apple. At the same time,
the individual can then take the information recognized about the apple and make personal inferences about it. The apple is small, ripe or not ripe, has a worm in
it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immediate determination of the existence of
the apple, through sense perception. Berkeley suggests that because of this abstraction, the individual qualities of the apple can exist outside of the mind, but that they cannot exist
outside of perception. It is not the mind itself that creates the determining characteristics of an object, but the process of perception that determines existence. This premise set
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