ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines George Berkeley’s metaphysical and epistemological criteria of possibility and impossibility. It explains Berkeley’s epistemic criteria of possibility and impossibility, which are the criteria that play a positive role in the construction of his ontological inventory. The book argues that Berkeley proposed an extensional theory of meaning that ranges over both actual and possible objects, and that the best available evidence indicates that Berkeley’s extensional theory of meaning applies to both categorematic and syncategorematic terms. It discusses Berkeley’s account of conventional meaning and one’s knowledge of linguistic conventions. The book shows that the issues germane to the analysis of intentional acts are the same as the issues germane to an extensional theory of linguistic meaning. It also argues that since Berkeley analyzed ordinary objects in terms of ideas, there is no distinction between an ordinary object and an intentional object.
