Berkeley

Anglo-Irish philosopher and bishop (1685–1753)

George Berkeley, known as Bishop Berkeley, was an Anglo-Irish philosopher, writer, and clergyman who is regarded as the founder of immaterialism, a philosophical theory he developed which later came to be known as subjective idealism.

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A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge1 passage

Human Knowledge, SECT 25-27 417d-418b; SECT 135-145 440a-442a✓ correct

It is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination- either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways. By sight I… Read the rest of this passage →

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