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Empiricist arguments give experience a central role in understanding knowledge. Locke and Berkeley show how that shared emphasis can lead to sharply different conclusions.
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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?