Lexicon of Arguments

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Berkeley: the reality consists exactly of our representations. Problem: how can I have false representations?
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Putnam V 87
Berkeley/PutnamVsBerkeley/Putnam: Unfortunate consequence of the similarity theory of reference: It implies that nothing exists except mental entities. >Similarity.
Putnam V 88
Representation - Similarity - Presentation - Berkeley: only an idea - nothing can be similar to a sensation or a mental image but a different sensation or other mental image - therefore no "idea" (no mental picture) can be something other than another image or another sensation. >Ideas, >Imagination.
Putnam: That plunged philosophy into a deep crisis. Something absurd followed from a completely stringent argumentation.

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