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- Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753)
How To Use Bishop Berkeley In A Sentence
- All is as unsubstantial, as vague and shadowy, as Coleridge's "image of a rock," or Bishop Berkeley's "ghost of a departed quantity," as he once defined a fluxion. Life: Its True Genesis
- I get the Bishop Berkeley idea that things only exist when God thinks about them; that God is not sempiternal but only exists when some people think about him is bizarre.
- In 1744, Bishop Berkeley paradox in the absence of the case or say, but also to beg of Hope Hospital in philosophy by the term meaning: "a natural phenomenon is only natural appearance.
- In 1744, Bishop Berkeley paradox in the absence of the case or say, but also to beg of Hope Hospital in philosophy by the term meaning: "a natural phenomenon is only natural appearance.
- When Samuel Johnson was asked how he would refute Bishop Berkeley's philosophical proposition about the non-existence of matter, he famously kicked a stone and said: "I refute it thus! If you want to create jobs at home, don't rely on startups
