Berkeley and common sense

 Hylas argues that man is too unskilled to have any true knowledge due to the limits of man
 Immaterialism: things which are we name must be known as if we didn’t we wouldn’t have
thought of them or named them
 Things that are perceived by the senses are immediately perceived and things immediately
perceived are ideas
1. Ordinary objects are perceived by the senses
2. Whatever is perceived by the senses is immediately perceived
3. Therefore, ordinary objects are immediately perceived
4. Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea
5. Therefore ordinary objects are ideas
 There may be object that exist without your mind watching it but another mind must be
watching it
 God is watching all things at all time
 As nothing can exist without God’s will. As many atheist argue that matter must have always
existed
 Berkely argues that it is impossible for matter to exist at all without a God
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