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Principles of Human Knowledge challenges material substance through arguments about ideas and resemblance. Berkeley’s conclusion goes beyond the observation that appearances vary.
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Guided course · Module 9 · Lesson 50
Ideas, experience and a material world
Locke traces ideas to experience and distinguishes primary from secondary qualities; Berkeley challenges the material substance supposed to bear them. What does experience warrant about the objects we encounter?