How did Berkeley argue against materialism?
I approached the prevailing materialistic view by examining what we directly experience. We perceive qualities such as color, taste, and extension, but we never perceive an underlying, unperceivable material substance. To assert its existence is to posit an abstract idea, which I argued is impossible to form. Materialism, therefore, relies on an incoherent concept and leads to contradictions, whereas my view grounds reality in the direct apprehension of ideas by minds.
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