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    Under Berkeleyan idealism, anything we know is known beca... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Epistemic facts are trivially mind-dependent under Berkeleyan idealism.

    Under Berkeleyan idealism, anything we know is known because some mental state of affairs obtains.

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    According to idealism (e.g., of a Berkeleyan sort), anything we know we know because some mental state of affairs obtains, and this is because, for such an idealist, there is no external world; empirical reality is internal to our minds. This view of course implies that truths we might know, and indeed any epistemic facts, will be trivially mind dependent, given that part of what it is to be an idealist is to deny that there is a mind-independent objective reality. Importantly, this kind of heav

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