"(Berkeley) gave the impression that he too was a victim, that he took the assertion "Mind is a substance" in a literal sense, that he thought that the soul was actually a "substance" "in" which ideas "inhere" and which "supports" the ideas, ect. hence the expression "in the mind".... Berkeley had a purely substantivalist conception of the mind, confirmed by his private utterances."
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, "Berkeley's Two Concepts of Mind (Part II)" (1962),Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 22, No. 3 (March 1962) pp. 383
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Colin Murray Turbayne
Colin Murray Turbayne ( 7 February 1916 - 16 May 2006) was an Australian-American philosopher who specialized in the writings of the empiricist George Berkeley while lecturing for over three decades at the University of Rochester. He is also noted for his research into the use and abuse of the linguistic metaphors in the historical writings of several other noted philosophers and scientists of the western tradition in his book The Myth of Metaphor.
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