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machiavellis2

Philosophy and Berkeley (George)

Mar 26, 2006 18:41

So my philosophy class is going through George Berkeley now and I was wondering what other people thought of one of his most controversial statements cuz I'm a nerd like that. One of his main claims is ( Read more... )

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cirrus25 March 27 2006, 12:44:19 UTC

Jason, maybe it's just the fact that I didn't sleep last night, but you totally lost me somewhere around the word philosophy.

Remind me to see if this hurts my brain less tomorrow.

anonymous April 1 2006, 08:56:48 UTC

Lewis Carrol might disagree.

‘"There is no use in trying," said Alice. "One can’t believe impossible things."
"I dare say you haven’t had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."'

-Anne

machiavellis2 April 1 2006, 09:06:22 UTC

i completely agree with you and lewis carrol haha. but that's the main problem with berkeley. his statements seem to be so obvious, but they are so freakin complex that it makes everyone's brains hurt haha.

actually anonymous April 3 2006, 23:17:21 UTC

once a new thing is concieved it is no longer unconceived so really unconceived acts as a place holder like zero, created until something fills its' place nothing more; a human concept. assigning more value than that is unnessesary, it puts you in a mental loop that is primarily the fault of the limiting thing called "language" which is a human creation and consequently a massive failure in conparision to Space and all that is held in it, which is a quite a bit considering it is infinite.

--Jordan