Abstract

A sensible object, it will be argued, cannot exist apart from its being perceived if the differentiation of object from subject is essential to perception. By object-subject differentiation, the following is meant: if an object is to be perceived, then, in addition to being distinguished from its surroundings, it, as well as those adjacent things, must be distinguished from the subject that perceives it. This proposition also implies that a subject cannot exist apart from a perceived object. Our position, therefore, is not Berkeleian.