Abstract

In rejecting the philosophical view that there was a material substance, Berkeley takes it that he can also get rid of some other problems he considered (at least at an early stage of his philosophical development) to be closely linked to the belief in the existence of such a substance: those of the infinite divisibility of matter and of the existence of an extended God. So in his PC he writes: The Philosophers lose their Matter, The Mathematicians lose their insensible sensations, the Profane their extended Deity Pray wt do the Rest of Mankind lose, as for bodies &c we have them still. N.B. the future Philosophy: & Mathem: get vastly by ye bargain. (PC 391)

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