What is Berkeley's critique of abstraction associated with?
His immaterialism
His religious views
His political thoughts
His educational reforms
Answer
His immaterialism argues that the physical world is ultimately made up of mental or spiritual substances. Berkeley believed that the separation of ideas and objects, or the abstraction of objects from their qualities, leads to philosophical problems and skepticism. He held that objects are nothing but collections of ideas and that abstraction can lead to the mistaken belief in the existence of abstract entities or universals.
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