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. ... Locke lists size or extension, shape, motion or rest, solidity or impenetrability, and number as primary qualities of an object. ... But Locke maintains that perception gives us some knowledge of intrinsic properties of a physical object, namely, its primary qualities. ... Bishop Berkeley objected to Locke...

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Unlike Descartes, Locke claimed that innate ideas were practically non-existent. ... Locke also defined the two sources of knowledge as sensation and reflection. ... Locke's belief in the existence of God is argumentative. ... Locke takes God's existence to be "the most obvious truth reason discovers." John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the materialist position. ...

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