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Berkeley's Inconsistency

Berkeley's Inconsistency concerns the idea that our perceptions and beliefs about reality can conflict. For example, he pointed out that in some situations, our understanding of objects and their properties might contradict each other or different observations. This suggests that our knowledge of the world isn't always perfectly consistent or fully reliable. Berkeley believed that reality depends on being perceived; however, recognizing these inconsistencies challenges the idea that our perceptions perfectly match an objective world, raising questions about how we can be certain of what we perceive and know.