Or in other words:’ [A]fter the exclusion of colour, sounds, heat, and cold, from the rank of external existences, there remains nothing which can afford us a just and consistent idea of body.’ Berkeley and Hume deny that we can really understand the alleged properties of the alleged independent world, except in terms drawn from our own experience—our own minds. The ‘modern philosophy’ or scientific world view requires us to make sense of a ‘scientific’ or ‘absolute’ conception of reality, thought of in terms of space-occupying things, independent of us, whose arrangements explain all that can
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