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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (10078)	4/21/1998 12:13:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 71178

Yup. We are always stuck with axioms of some sort, one presupposition or another. Goedel, you know. No closed self defining systems. The problem with Berkeley's empiricism is that taken to its limit, it argues that nothing that isn't being perceived can exist. It appears to argue against an objective reality beyond the current limits of our perception. Berkeley avoided this trap by arguing that God perceives everything, and therefore being perceived, the objective universe exists. He insisted that he intended to describe simple common sense and nothing more. Without Berkeley's theistic worldview his philosophy becomes solipsism.