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In writing A Treatise Concerning the Principle of Human Knowledge George Berkeley presents a very strong philosophical argument. He reasons that nothing in the world, other than the mind, can exist without or independent of the mind. He reasons that things aren't really "things" but that they are more accurately termed ideas. This is clearly a rather large jump away from what is conventionally accepted in the word today and therefore Mr. Berkeley has to …

…This doesn't mean that objects aren't real and that you could walk through a table just by imagining you can, but the existence of the table resides entirely in the mind. The mind will perceive the table's solidity without you willing it, just as when you open your eyes you don't choose what you perceive. Objects exist in the mind and the mind only because the world is only known through the mind of perceivers.