HKB
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Often appears with: language, naming, and meaning · existence of matter · doubt, skepticism, and certainty · definition of nothing · abstract ideas
Usually: argument (1) · indignation (1) · skepticism (1)
Berkeley insists that defining matter as an inert, non-entity is merely redefining “nothing,” and that an abstract idea of existence independent of spirit and ideas is incoherent.
may say there is an inert thoughtless substance without accidents which is the occasion of our ideas. And we shall understand just as much by one proposition as the other. 80. In the last place, you will say, what if we give up the cause of material Substance, and stand to it that Matter is an unknown somewhat--neither substance nor accident, spirit nor idea, inert, thoughtless, indivisible, immovable, unextended, e…