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Often appears with: truth and demonstration · suspension of judgment · skepticism · reason and the intellect · philosophy and wisdom · false principles · errors from misinterpretation · education and the training of the young · doubt, skepticism, and certainty · careful reading
Usually: reflection (1) · crisis of belief (1) · exhortation (1) · resignation (1)
In the introduction, Berkeley argues that philosophy should bring wisdom and calm, but instead produces doubts when people move beyond sense; he claims difficulties come mainly from misuse of faculties and false first principles.
INTRODUCTION 1. Philosophy being nothing else but THE STUDY OF WISDOM AND TRUTH, it may with reason be expected that those who have spent most time and pains in it should enjoy a greater calm and serenity of mind, a greater clearness and evidence of knowledge, and be less disturbed with doubts and difficulties than other men. Yet so it is, we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common…