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Even Kant, in his famous refutation of idealism, is inclined to believe that Berkeley regarded the objects of the space world to be possessed of only an imaginary reality. 8 Whatever criticism of Berkeley's system is made, one cer- tainly cannot suppose that he meant to do away with the reality 7 Principles of Human Knowledge, Sec. 51. 8 "Und darum auch die Dinge im Raum fur blosse Einbildungen erklart. " Kant, Pure Reason, Second Ed. (Refutation of Idealism), p. 274. 164 HISTORY OF MODERN PHIL...OSOPHY. of our world of sense or even of our fancy; no thinker has ever lived who rested his metaphysic more explicitly on the world of sense-perception. His chief aim was to show that the indescribable "matter" of the materialists was a fiction unin- telligible and in itself contradictory; it could therefore have no value. A lasting contribution he has most certainly made to the progress of the world's thought by drawing attention to the idealistic or universalistic side of empiricism. Berkeley represents the transition from Locke to Hume.
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