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Epistemology of

Idealism
 Epistemological idealism suggests that everything
we experience and know is of a mental nature -
sense data in philosophical jargon. Although it is
sometimes employed to argue in favor
of metaphysical idealism in principle
epistemological idealism makes no claim about
whether sense data are grounded in reality.
What is Epistemology of Idealism?
Berkeley insisted that the character of
the world as we experience it depends
so much upon the mind, that there is
no such thing that exist with out
someone perceiving it.
 Some idealist hold that we have direct experience
of the self, that it is a self evident fact; others find
the existence of self to be necessary inference.
 Selfhood, being what it is and the world being so
well-tuned to the experience of self, is believed by
idealists. Also, reality is a self
 Epistemology of idealism leads us to think that
authentic reality resides in our mind and that every
experience we encounter is a complex
imagination. Thus, failure of imagination is failure
of experience
Is there really a problem in communication
and coherence on Epistemology of idealism?
 In communication – yes, because communication
is an intersubjective activity and there will be
barriers of communication if each individual cling
on subjectivism.
 (ikaw na bahala elaborate maam :D)
 In coherence- yes, because the copy of real things
in the mind might be not that coherently true to the
emperical world. Why? It is a reality that
sometimes or most of the time, we are betrayed by
our senses. Thus, real and perceptible objects in
the emperical world can be different to the copy of
it in our mind.
 Dugangi lang maam

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