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33. "In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not, we might have the very same reasons to think there were that we have now." (§20) Explain.

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>From KAI YU and WAI YAN:

For the same reason that we can't say there isn't any physical objects existing, we can't say there is physical objects existing.

 

>rm says: Is this Berkeley's position? Doesn't he emphatically deny the existence of physical objects? Read the quote carefully.

 

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