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Berkeley on certainty : a dilema
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Berkeley on certainty : a dilema
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| title: | Berkeley on certainty : a dilema |
| author: | Spryszak Przemysław 
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| journal title: | Ruch Filozoficzny |
| volume: | 71 |
| issue: | 4 |
| date of publication : | 2015 |
| pages: | 145-153 |
| ISSN: |
0035-9599 |
| eISSN: |
2545-3173 |
| DOI: | |
| URL: |
http://apcz.pl/czasopisma/index.php/RF/article/view/RF.2015.010/10157 |
| date accessed: |
2016-06-25 |
| notes: | Recenzowane materiały z: International Berkeley Conference - The 300th Anniversary of the Publication of "Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous" |
| language: | English |
| journal language: | English |
| abstract in English: | In this paper it is argued that it is a condition sine qua non of the success of Berkeley’s anisceptic project that the concept of certainty (i.e. of infallibility, required in philosophy of his time and, according to Berkeley, plainly gained only by his immaterialist solution) have to be fully analysable in terms of his own philosophy, otherwise the very concept should be dismissed by him owing to its meaninglessness. I maintain that his philosophy makes two general ways of the analysis in question possible. I think, however, that both of them seem to have unexpected implications, especially in that it makes our empirical knowledge flowing from immediate perception become not absolutely certain. The alternative: meaninglessness of the term “certain” or uncertainty of that knowledge is what I call “a dilemma” here. Then I try to show that three additional ways of avoiding (or explaining) that dilemma, available assuming Berkeley’s philosophy, i.e. the ways which probably remain in accordance with his position, unfortunately fail as well. |
| keywords in English: | George Berkeley, certainty, scepticism, perception, ideas, sensations, immaterialism |
| affiliation: | Wydział Filozoficzny : Instytut Filozofii |
| type: | journal article |
| subtype: | academic paper |
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