A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
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A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

ISBN 13:  9780486432533

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Author  George Berkeley
Format  Paperback
No. of Pages  144
Brand:  Dover Publications

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is present to hear it, does it make a sound? It does not, according to George Berkeley. Originally published in 1710, this landmark of Western philosophy introduced a revolutionary concept: immaterialism, which asserts that to be is to perceive or be perceived. The treatise opens with an assault on Locke's theory of abstract ideas and proceeds with arguments that sensible qualities exist only when perceived as ideas. Physical objects, he claims, are no more than collections of qualities, and these sensible objects, too, are merely ideas. Berkeley relates his position to the achievements of eighteenth-century science, and proclaims the compatibility of immaterialism with traditional religion.

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