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In this exceptional work, Berkeley makes the striking claim that physical things consist of nothing but ideas and therefore do not exist outside the mind. This claim establishes him as the founder of the idealist tradition in philosophy.
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- Author
- Alfred Klemmt, George Berkeley
- First published
- 1710
- Pages
- 148
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill, Maʻārif Pres, Hackett Pub. Co.
- Editions
- 49
- Language
- German, French, urd, English
- ISBN
- 9780198751601
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