What appear to the senses instantly such as the color, texture, and smell are called sensations while the real color, if any, is known as self-datum’. Now, Russell criticizes two philosophers who first brought this up before him. Bishop Berkley in his ‘Three Dialogues Between Hyles and Philonous, in opposition to skeptics and atheists’, demonstrates his belief that matter is nothing but a collection of thoughts in an individual’s mind. Berkley presents his belief in a form of an argument between two men, Hylas who believes in the existence of matter and Philonous who harshly points out the flaws and contradictions in his belief. Bishop vividly delivers the argument that the existence of matter can be doubted though some his arguments are relatively complex in Russell’s opinion. Russell stresses on the fact that Berkley agrees with sense data being a proof of presence of matter but he does reject that matter such as a table is material or non-metal. Throughout the dialogue, Bishop concludes that matter is all an idea in God’s mind independent of all humans’ minds. On the other hand, Leibniz, another sophisticated thinker, has a somewhat similar opinion as Berkley’s except that Leibniz views matter as an idea in a collection of minds rather than the mind of
What appear to the senses instantly such as the color, texture, and smell are called sensations while the real color, if any, is known as self-datum’. Now, Russell criticizes two philosophers who first brought this up before him. Bishop Berkley in his ‘Three Dialogues Between Hyles and Philonous, in opposition to skeptics and atheists’, demonstrates his belief that matter is nothing but a collection of thoughts in an individual’s mind. Berkley presents his belief in a form of an argument between two men, Hylas who believes in the existence of matter and Philonous who harshly points out the flaws and contradictions in his belief. Bishop vividly delivers the argument that the existence of matter can be doubted though some his arguments are relatively complex in Russell’s opinion. Russell stresses on the fact that Berkley agrees with sense data being a proof of presence of matter but he does reject that matter such as a table is material or non-metal. Throughout the dialogue, Bishop concludes that matter is all an idea in God’s mind independent of all humans’ minds. On the other hand, Leibniz, another sophisticated thinker, has a somewhat similar opinion as Berkley’s except that Leibniz views matter as an idea in a collection of minds rather than the mind of