Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Tag: ad lapidem fallacy

  • Argumentum ad Lapidem?

    No way, I say.  Over at Substack. Ed comments: "He did not maintain that rocks and trees do not exist; he did not deny or even question whether they are; he offered an unusual ontological account of what they are, namely, ideas in minds, including the divine mind." (BV) True, but careful examination of Berkeley’s…