The Argument from Illusion
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Esse est Percipi
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All objects of human knowledge are either external sensations or inner sensations or memories or imaginings. Imaginings are combinations of other ideas. Objects are consistent collections of sense-experiences – for example, an apple is a collection of a certain sight with a taste, and so forth. In addition to ideas there is a distinct thing that perceives them – this is called mind or soul. Now the existence of an idea is to be perceived – esse est percipi. Everyone admits that thoughts and passions exist in the mind and also that sensations cannot exist except in the mind. People do not generally realize that this also means that a table exists only as an object of sensation. To say that an object that I do not see exists is to say that if I looked at it I would see it, or alternatively, that another mind actually does see it. It is impossible to understand the idea of an absolute object – that is to say, the idea of an object that wholly exists without ever being perceived.
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Contents of
The Argument from Illusion
1 The Problem of Other Consciousnesses
2 Subjective and Objective
3 Berkeley: The Principles of Human Knowledege
4 Esse est Percipi
5 The Argument from Illusion in Descartes and Hume
6 Descartes - Sceptical Arguments - Sense Deception
7 Descartes Dream Scepticism
8 J. L. Austen: Sense and Sensibilia
9 The Argument from Illusion in Berkeley and Hume
10 Entrapment within Subjectivity
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