Idealism

Question 1

What is idealism?

Answer 1

All that exists are mind and ideas
All we perceive are PQ’s and SQ’s
Everything is mind dependent

Question 2

What does Berkeley think about Idealism and why?

Answer 2

Doesn’t make sense

Something that has size and shape must also have colour

Question 3

What does indirect realism think of idealism

Answer 3

If we argue we need a material substratum in which qualities exist
We have no conception of this independent of its qualities

Question 4

Idealism counter to indirect realism

Answer 4

We can know what the world is, because by experience ideas we are experiencing the world

Question 5

Berkeley’s master argument

Answer 5

Can’t conceive of anything existing independent of all minds
When we think of such a thing
Our thinking makes it not mind-independent

Question 6

Objection to Berkeley’s master argument

Answer 6

Confused thought with what a thought is about

Question 7

How do physical objects not cause my perceptions?

Answer 7

What we perceive is involuntary and what we imagine is voluntary, instead God causes my perceptions and ideas are passive

Question 8

What does Berkeley believe about objects unperceived?

Answer 8

Exist in the mind of God

Question 9

Objections to idealism

Answer 9

No 2 people ever perceive the same thing

Each perceives the ideas in their own mind

Question 10

Berkeley’s response to objections to idealism

Answer 10

They perceive similar things

Copies of one idea in God’s mind

Question 11

How can what I perceive exist in God’s mind?

Answer 11

Perceive copies of ideas the exist eternally in God’s understanding when God wills me to do so.