7 July 2004 Lecture Summary

Strictly speaking, there was no lecture today. Instead we went at a slow pace through much of the First Dialogue, with a special focus on the whole strategy of argumentation. (That is, we were concerned with avoiding the mistake of looking at only one argument at a time. Berkeley typically checkmates his opponents by bringing up several lines of argument together; the problem his opponents face is not any particular argument but the difficulty of consistently and relevantly dealing with two, or three, or four arguments together.)