Synopsis:
- Idealism
- Critique of Newtonian world: matter does not even exist
- All we know is our perceptions
- We cannot directly know that there is an external world ("esse est percipi")
- Reality is inside our mind: an object is an experience
- The whole universe is a set of experiences
- The only thing that exists is the experiences of our mind
- The only thing that exists is mind
- The soul always thinks
- The world is exactly how it appears: it "is" what appears, and it is inside our mind
- Our mind rules ideas
- Reality consists of finite, created minds; an infinite, uncreated mind; ideas
- Objects do not exist apart from a subject that thinks them.
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