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A 5 page paper discussing Berkeley’s position on perception and existence, and providing his central argument supporting his position. According to Berkeley’s philosophy, minds perceive only mental images. Therefore, humans can experience the world only in terms of mental images, because we have no other means of perceiving anything around us. Berkeley does, indeed, demonstrate his position, as he said he could. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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File: CC6_KSphiloBerkExist.rtf
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(1596-1650) preceded the notion by 150 years when he concluded, "I think, therefore I am," but George Berkeley (1685-1753) refined the idea of physical existence as being a matter of
perception rather than of reality. He argued, "esse est percipi aut percipere (to exist is to be perceived or to perceive) (Kroll, 1995; p. 530). Berkeleys Philosophy
According to Berkeleys philosophy, human perception arises from the concentration of images within the human brain. These images are instilled by God (Kroll, 1995)
and coalesce to form images - or perception of images - that we assume to be and treat as real, when in fact they have no more substance than does
any other image. Strange though it seems to think that I am not, after all, really sitting at a computer typing this paper, but only perceiving that I am,
Berkeley would tell me that I am indeed promoting ideas but that the tools I believe myself to be using in reality are only props I perceive to be present.
I believe that writing a paper is what I am doing, however, and I have a mental collage of images combining to create a perception of having a monitor
in front of me and a keyboard at my fingers. Is the movement of my fingers real as I type these words? The possibility that perhaps the movement
of my hands is only another form of perception is more difficult to grasp. I believe the movement of my hands is real, but am I only perceiving that
I have hands? According to Berkeley, my hands and every other part of my body may only exist as perception as well, though there is no question that I
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