chapter 4, might have held this view. Recall that Berkeley was an idealist who argued that appearance is reality. In an evil-demon scenario, the tables and chairs have the same appearance as tables and chairs in the physical world. If appearance is reality, it follows that people in that scenario will experience real tables and chairs, and will have mostly true beliefs about their reality. Alas, it looks as if Berkeley never endorsed this view. He never discusses Descartes’s evil-demon scenario at all. He would probably have considered the evil demon an impossibility; like Descartes, he
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