{"id":27706,"date":"2024-06-09T03:05:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T03:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/demonstrating-the-independent-existence-of-an-external-world-locke-berkeley-and-descartes\/"},"modified":"2024-06-09T03:05:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T03:05:30","slug":"demonstrating-the-independent-existence-of-an-external-world-locke-berkeley-and-descartes","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/demonstrating-the-independent-existence-of-an-external-world-locke-berkeley-and-descartes\/","title":{"rendered":"Demonstrating the Independent Existence of an External World: Locke, Berkeley, and Descartes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><em style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Consider this question: can we demonstrate the independent existence of an external world? That is, can we show that material objects exist apart from our experience of them?&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><em style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">First, explain Locke\u2019s distinction between<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">primary and secondary qualities<\/strong>&nbsp;and show how Locke uses this distinction to answer this question. Go into detail.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><em style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Next, explore Berkeley\u2019s criticisms of Locke\u2019s distinction and suggest how Berkeley would answer this question. Again, go into detail.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><em style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Finally, talk about how Descartes answers this question, elaborating fully.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><em style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">In the end, whose position is strongest? Why? Defend your answer at length.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this question: can we demonstrate the independent existence of an external world? That is, can we show that material objects exist apart from our experience of them?&nbsp; First, explain Locke\u2019s distinction between&nbsp;primary and secondary qualities&nbsp;and show how Locke uses this distinction to answer this question. Go into detail. Next, explore Berkeley\u2019s criticisms of Locke\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[56],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/27706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/27706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=27706"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=27706"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=27706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}