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  • adjective Alternative form of Berkeleian.

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  • His target is a purely sense-datum experience, which does not feature objects, “conceived of as distinct from any particular states of awareness of them,” that is, a Berkeleyan experience of spatial objects whose esse is percipi (1966: 98).

    Kant's Transcendental Arguments Pereboom, Derk 2009

  • And since Berkeleyan idealism is logically indefeasible strictu sensu, one must conclude, by parity of reasoning with keiths 'attacks on moral realism, that materialist realism has been defeated, and Psychopathic Berkeleyan Idealism vindicated by strict keithsian bullcrapology.

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • Third, one might contend that Kant's Refutation demonstrates that the reference in question must be (relatively) permanent, and that there is nothing in the Berkeleyan spatial realm that satisfies this requirement.

    Kant's Transcendental Arguments Pereboom, Derk 2009

  • In considering the question of why his early critics Garve and Feder interpreted him as a Berkeleyan idealist, he writes:

    Kant's Views on Space and Time Janiak, Andrew 2009

  • More generally, the worry is that Berkeleyan version of idealism has the resources to yield as adequate a reference for me to determine the temporal order of my past experiences as any rival position Kant is plausibly interpreted as endorsing, and that for this reason the Refutation falls short of its aim.

    Kant's Transcendental Arguments Pereboom, Derk 2009

  • In other words, you've failed to rule out Berkeleyan idealism.

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • Part of the problem is to find a refution of Berkeleyan idealism, by showing how the existence and real nature of matter can be proved.

    A Message About ID 2007

  • A project shared by the participants in the controversy was the search for a refution of Berkeleyan idealism, which would should how the existence and real nature of matter can be discovered.

    Logical Constructions Linsky, Bernard 2009

  • That's why they lock up people who sincerely disbelieve in moral value, but they don't lock up Berkeleyan idealists, sense-data theorists, Hegelian idealists, phenomenologists, etc, etc, etc.

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • For granting that the Refutation establishes that for me to determine the temporal order of my past experiences I must perceive objects in space, it fails to show that I need to perceive spatial objects any more realistic than the Berkeleyan ones.

    Kant's Transcendental Arguments Pereboom, Derk 2009

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