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02291aam a2200289Ii 4500 001 063CCCEEFDB111E7BCC604F996128E48 003 SILO 005 20180120010217 008 161125s2017 enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780198790334 020 $a 0198790333 035 $a (OCoLC)964379298 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d STF $d NYP $d GUA $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 050 4 $a B1348 $b .P43 2017 $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/classification/B1-B5802 082 04 $a 192 $2 23 100 1 $a Pearce, Kenneth L., $e author. 245 10 $a Language and the structure of Berkeley's world / $c Kenneth L. Pearce. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xiv, 218 pages : $b illustration ; $c 24 cm 520 8 $a According to George Berkeley (1685-1753), there is fundamentally nothing in the world but minds and their ideas. Surprisingly, Berkeley tries to sell this idealistic philosophical system as a defense of common-sense and an aid to science. However, both common-sense and Newtonian science take the perceived world to be highly structured in a way that Berkeley's system does not appear to allow. The author of this book argues that Berkeley's solution to this problem lies in his philosophy of language. The solution works at two levels. At the first level, it is by means of our conventions for the use of physical object talk that we impose structure on the world. At a deeper level, the orderliness of the world is explained by the fact that, according to Berkeley, the world itself is a discourse 'spoken' by God. The structure that our physical object talk aims to capture is the grammatical structure of this divine discourse. This approach yields surprising consequences for some of the most discussed issues in Berkeley's metaphysics. In Berkeley's view, physical objects are neither ideas nor collections of ideas. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-214) and index. 600 10 $a Berkeley, George, $d 1685-1753 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Language and languages $x Philosophy. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074574 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210014303.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=063CCCEEFDB111E7BCC604F996128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search