Argument

Master argument

Overview

See Diodorus Cronus § Master argument for the classical master argument related to the problem of future contingents.

The master argument is George Berkeley's argument that mind-independent objects do not exist because it is impossible to conceive of them. The argument is against the intuitions that many have and has been widely challenged. The term "Berkeley's master argument" was introduced by Andre Gallois in 1974. His term has firmly become currency of contemporary Berkeley scholarship.

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Philosophers who discussed Master argument

• Diodorus Cronus

Related ideas

• George Berkeley
• Argument
• Materialism
• Diodorus Cronus
• Subjective idealism
• Bertrand Russell
• Tautology (logic)
• Problem of future contingents
• Charles Sanders Peirce
• Christopher Peacocke

Place in the tradition

Part of Idealism.

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