PHH-3400 Study Guide - Final Guide: Inductive Reasoning, Omnipotence, Subjective Idealism
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Berkeley, materialism assumes things about nature and reality that cannot be proved with common sense. Materialism poses that physical things really exist and that they do so on their own. This view is inconsistent with common sense because one must use their senses to perceive material things if they exist. But since our senses are all relative, such as some people being colorblind or perceiving large objects as small from afar, we cannot rely on them to prove the existence of material things. Therefore, immaterialism is consistent with common sense because it accepts that we have no basis to prove that physical objects indeed exist. Present what you believe is the best objection to hume"s argument. Hume believes that when we introspect, we find no one thing called the self like descartes claims. He believes that we only find all of our individual thoughts, perceptions and feelings.
