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In response to one of this philosopher’s ideas, Samuel Johnson kicked a stone and proclaimed, “I refute it thus.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this tar-water-peddling philosopher who argued that primary qualities were relative and therefore mind-dependent. This thinker wrote that “to be is to be perceived.”
ANSWER: George Berkeley
[10e] Berkeley’s later works arguing against primary qualities built on his “new theory of [this faculty],” which rejected the views of earlier optics theories and held that spatial depth was invisible to this sense.
ANSWER: vision [accept eyesight; accept An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision]
[10h] In his Principles and Dialogues, Berkeley put forth this argument whose name was coined by Andre Gallois. This argument asks the reader to imagine trees in a park or books in a closet to deny mind-independent objects.
ANSWER: master argument
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