Metaphysics

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

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George Berkeley

1710 · 90 pages

Berkeley’s central statement of immaterialism: esse is percipi — to be is to be perceived. Denying the existence of matter outside the mind, he argues that sensible things are ideas, that abstract general ideas are an illusion of language, and that the order of nature is the direct language of God speaking to finite spirits.