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George Berkeley
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Berkeley challenges the inference from experience to material substance. His immaterialism retains ordinary objects, active spirits and a role for God in the order of experience.
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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?