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Description acceptable. Mary Shepherd developed an alternative to Humean metaphysics that she was careful to distinguish from this view, which she critiqued for being based on an “incomplete definition.” Ronald Knox parodied this view in two limericks that dispute whether God (15[1])is “in the Quad.” The (15[1])example of a centaur is used to prove a precursor to this view in Clavis Universalis by Arthur Collier. The first step in the proof of this view argues that heat and color are experienced as pleasure and pain, collapsing Locke’s distinction between (*) primary and secondary qualities. (10[2])One cannot imagine a tree that nobody has yet imagined, according to the “master argument” in support of this view. The character of Philonous (“philo-NOOSE”) defends this viewpoint, which Samuel Johnson opposed (10[1])by kicking a stone and yelling “I refute it thus!” For 10 points, Bishop George Berkeley advanced what idea that reality only exists in the mind? ■END■

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