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George Berkeley

George Berkeley
Irish philosopher George Berkeley is considered the founder of idealism, the philosophical view that all physical objects are dependent on the mind for their existence. According to Berkeley's early 18th-century writings, an object such as a table exists only if a mind is perceiving it. Hence, objects are ideas.
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Berkeley, George; Philosophy, Western; Idealism
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