(February 18, 2017 at 11:01 am)Khemikal Wrote: I wouldn't spend too much time worrying about the form of berkeleys foundational argument regarding objects and perception. Time simply hasn't been kind to the premises....and in the 250 years since they were offered we have found ways to both deny the premises...and even to accept them and still arrive at a materialist conclusion. Regardless of it's validity, the argument has become uninformative.
Sometime ago someone had some argument against some premise so we don't have to bother thinking about it and it doesn't matter anyway.