I get the intuition of this question. Materialism needs to emerge for 'idealism' to take on the sense that it has. Berkeley's 'Principles' are quite clear in how they're driven by the inconsistency of the concept of 'matter', as a solution to these inconsistencies.
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That was indeed the intuition. It means there's a sort of paradox: you have to trust science in order to arrive at the conclusion that science is massively wrong. Compare how some contemporary idealists appeal to natural selection
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yes, but that's a rather different sort of idealism, isn't it? It's not that everything's dependent on *our* minds
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...is this bait?
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I think it depends what is meant by "modern": how far back do we go? Electronics? Steam power? Metal smelting? Bows & arrows? "Modern" is moot!
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I was thinking of Galileo et al
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I thought something like idealism was a dominant conception of the world in classical Indian thought?
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I'm shamefully ignorant
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