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For Berkeley, a cherry would consist of only:

Any particular virtue is always the exact middle between excess and deficiency.

Who thought Primary qualities are as subjective as Secondary qualities?

The Prime Mover is also:

The color of the Octopus is:

From Meditation I:    12. So I shall suppose that some malicious, powerful, cunning demon has done all he can to deceive me—rather than this being done by God, who is supremely good and the source of truth. I shall think that the sky, the air, the earth, colours, shapes, sounds and all external things are merely dreams that the demon has contrived as traps for my judgment. I shall consider myself as having no hands or eyes, or flesh, or blood or senses, but as having falsely believed that I had all these things. I shall stubbornly persist in this train of thought; and even if I can’t learn any truth, I shall at least do what I can do, which is to be on my guard against accepting any falsehoods, so that the deceiver—however powerful and cunning he may be—will be unable to affect me in the slightest. This will be hard work, though, and a kind of laziness pulls me back into my old ways. Like a prisoner who dreams that he is free, starts to suspect that it is merely a dream, and wants to go on dreaming rather than waking up, so I am content to slide back into my old opinions; I fear being shaken out of them because I am afraid that my peaceful sleep may be followed by hard labour when I wake, and that I shall have to struggle not in the light but in the imprisoning darkness of the problems I have raised.      Pick the most correct answer that illustrates the main point in passage 12:

This philosopher said “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

The Ethical Egoist tries to show:

Psychological Egoism is this sort of theory:

For John Locke, our passive mind takes in experience through: