... and build on them. However, it is also common for present philosophers to criticize past philosophies. Two strongly differing arguments is John Locke and George Berkeley's views of existence. John Locke believed strongly in the idea that secondary qualities exist only in the mind, leaving the primary qualities in the things themselves. ... exist through a mind that exists all the time- God. Criticism for these two philosophers or philosophies is abundant. Just a few of both Berkeley and Locke include that Berkeley's idea that all objects and ideas will always exist in God. This leads one...

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... belief that human understanding ultimately derives from experiences that are perceived through the senses, not through some kind of predetermined reaction. "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." Locke felt that the senses, as receptors, first supply us with particular ideas or images from a stimulus, which the mind by degrees becomes familiar with, remembers, and names. Through this ... inbred ideas are commonplace in one culture but unacceptable in others, again supporting the theory that environment is a major influence on our perceptions of many differing instances....

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Representative Realism John Locke thought that the ideas or perceptions which we have of objects in the external world partially represent the objects as they are in themselves, and so whether they are being perceived or not. This view of Locke's is called representative realism. The term "realism" here refers to ... it is in itself apart from perception. For example, a well-painted portrait of someone is said to accurately represent that person. But Locke thought that only some of our ideas or perceptions are accurate representations of the object itself, and that others are partially due t...

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... behaviour of others stands in a relation to sensations which is analogous to the relation in which my behaviour stands to my own sensations. [Mill, J. S. (Ed. Priestly, F. E. L.). (1963) Collected Works of John Stuart Mill. Prentice-Hall: Toronto] When we look at something from a reality standpoint, we see things for what they really are, without the human associations and interpretations. It just is ... cannot be a body without a shape or a size, as their cannot be a body without smell or taste. Secondary qualities on the other hand are but a power to produce sensations in us. John Loc...

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... certain innate schema in the mind. Those that belonged to the empiricist school of thought developed quite separate and distinct ideas concerning the nature of the substratum of sensible objects. John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the materialist position. The main figure who believed that material substance did ... ...

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... certain innate schema in the mind. Those that belonged to the empiricist school of thought developed quite separate and distinct ideas concerning the nature of the substratum of sensible objects. John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the materialist position. The main figure who believed that material substance did ... ...

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