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38. What are laws of nature, according to Berkeley? Be specific. How do we learn them? Why are they useful?

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>From nr:

according to berkeley, the laws of nature are the "set rules or established methods" that the mind depends on for ideas of sense. these ideas let us now which other ideas correlate with each other. you learn the lawsof nature by experience.

>rm says: Good. Are they exceptionless? That is, once we have determined a law of nature, will all events conform to it? Consider the difference between Hume and Berkeley here.

 

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