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    One must accept idealism if one accepts Berkeley's re-int... — Carmelics
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    One must accept idealism if one accepts Berkeley's re-interpretation of causality as a relation of marks and signs between ideas.

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    • 1.Berkeley re-interprets causality as a purported relation between ideas, not between material things.
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    • 2.On this theory, ideas of objects are signs of God's plan for future possible ideas.
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    • 3.Accepting this theory of causality and signs commits one to a world constituted by ideas and the divine mind that orders them.
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    • 1.A regularity theory of causation (Hume) can interpret constant conjunctions among ideas without requiring a divine mind to order them.
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    • 2.If causal relations are just observed regularities between ideas, no theological idealist ontology is entailed by accepting the sign-relation account.
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    • 1.Leibniz's pre-established harmony also reinterprets efficient causation as representational correspondence yet grounds this in monadic substances, not Berkeleyan immaterialism.
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    • 2.The sign-relation theory of causality is therefore compatible with non-Berkeleyan ontologies, so accepting it does not uniquely commit one to Berkeley's idealism.
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    Berkeley’s criticism of Locke’s theory concerning substances is not carried out for its own sake. On the contrary, it is meant to establish what Berkeley thinks to be the unavoidable metaphysical consequences of a position that takes ideas “in the mind” to be the only material for the operations of the mind in its acquisition of knowledge. These metaphysical consequences consist in a thoroughgoing idealism or “immaterialism” with respect to the nature and constitution of things or substances. Be
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