Introduction to Philosophy: Overhead

Berkeley's Defense of the First Premise
of the Heat-Pain Argument (P 164b)

1. When you put your hand in the fire, you immediately perceive intense heat.
2. When you put your hand in the fire, you immediately perceive pain.
3. When you put your hand in the fire, you immediately perceive only "one simple or uncompounded idea."
4. When you put your hand in the fire, the intense heat you immediately perceive is the pain you immediately perceive (since otherwise you would be perceiving two ideas, not one).
5. Intense heat is pain.

Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 21 February 2003

1.		When you put your hand in the fire, you immediately perceive intense heat.
2.		When you put your hand in the fire, you immediately perceive pain.
3.		When you put your hand in the fire, you immediately perceive only "one simple or uncompounded idea."
4.		When you put your hand in the fire, the intense heat you immediately perceive is the pain you immediately perceive (since otherwise you would be perceiving two ideas, not one).
5.		Intense heat is pain.