1. Berkley's Theory of Immaterialism
John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the materialist position. ... As the materialist believes, primary qualities of an object are those things that areabstract (not sense oriented). ... Secondary qualities are those things that are concrete (sense oriented), such as color, smell, sound, and taste. ... As that person views the artwork, the paintings themselves are sensible things, or ideas, actively being perceived by a mind; in short, they exist. ... In truth, God is the "omnipresent external mind which k...
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