This chapter surveys, formulates, and evaluates Berkeley's main arguments for the foundational doctrine of his philosophy, namely that we perceive only our own ideas or, as he puts it, that sensible qualities are only ideas or sensations in the mind: the pleasure-pain argument, two subtly different versions of the argument from perceptual relativity (one of which invokes, in effect, the...
Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Note on the References and Abbreviations 1. Meditation and the Method of Doubt 1. Descartes's Goal 2. Cartesian Doubt 3. Is the Cartesian Doubt Self-Refuting? 3.1 Deceptiveness of the Senses 3.2 Dream Argument 3.3 Deceiver Argument Notes 2. Meditation II: the Cogito and the Self51 1. Descartes's I am thinking, therefore exist. 2....