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I was just reading the George Berkeley dialogues. In one he brings up a question about things be the "same". An example is "if a house has it's internal walls completely restructured and changed, and the outside remains the same, is it still the same house?" These are the kinds of things I love in philosophy. Any recommendations on philosophers with this kind of thinking/questions/writings? Thanks

>>3301331
spirits

are there such things as abstract ideas?

>>3242659
>"cold", like "sanity", is a word that relates to a certain concept and therefore only exists as such. It is not an actual object
pls stop

>>3237072
try to dissuade me from my ideas, i fucking dare you you filthy skeptic

>>3237087
conventions ma'am, ignore them

>>3237096
pls

We don't really have a philosophy board, but I figure you guys are better to ask than /b/,

I'm analyzing an argument of George Berkeley's in which he claims that we can only know of the existence of external objects by perceiving them. I put his argument into this form:

This table exists because I can perceive it
I know things exist because I perceive them
Therefore, we can only know the existence of any external object by perceiving it.

I'm not sure if this is right, and I'm also unsure of what form of argument it would be. Hypothetical Syllogism, Reductio ad Absurdum, Argument from Analogy, ect.

Any thoughts?