Examine the distinction which Locke draws (or attempts to draw) between primary' and secondary' qualities. ... The problem of resemblance also affects Locke's principle of causality. ... This certainly does seem to be a fundamental flaw in Locke's theory of representative realism. ... However, Berkeley has another line of attack on Locke's primary/secondary quality distinction. ... Hospers describes this objection as being based on Locke's idea of variability. ...

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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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Berkeley's Theory of Immaterialism As man progressed through the various stages of evolution, it is assumed that at a certain point he began to ponder the world around him. Of course, these first attempts fell short of being scholarly, probably consisting of a few grunts and snorts at be...

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L.). (1963) Collected Works of John Stuart Mill. ... John Locke, a pre-eminent philosopher of the 17th century agrees in that he claims that the vehicle of the power to produce ideas in us is nothing but the primary qualities of the object which has the power. ...

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