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Berkeley
maintained that his view was faithful to common sense.
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This little dialogue occurred in my
house on the afternoon of Sunday, Oct. 10. 1999. It illustrates one of two
answers Berkeley gave to the objection that his view entailed
that things don't exist when people are not perceiving them.
(The daughter was 8.)
Mother: Do you know
where your lunch box is? Daughter: Yes. Mother: Where? Daughter: It's in the
Lost and Found--I think.
Mother: What you mean you
think it's in the Lost and Found? Daughter:
I mean that I
think that if I were to go to the Office, I would see it on the Lost and
Found shelf.
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Update (October 2011): The daughter is now a college
senior majoring in Economics.
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