Logic Notebook 1865-7

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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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do not apodeictically follow from it. It is the same with external qualities. On the other hand (spirit) is a good hypothesis because (the) it does explain the facts. Only it is admitted it does not explain the influencing of one mind by another. That is inexplicable. The doctrine is good against an absolute matter. But an equally strong argument could be brought against an absolutely existing spirit.

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