George Berkeley

George Berkeley (/ˈbɑːrkli/;^[1][2] 12 Mairch 1685 – 14 Januar 1753) — kent as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop o Cloyne) — wis an Erse filosofer whase primar achievement wis the advancement o a theory he cried "immaterialism" (later referred tae as "subjective idealism" bi ithers). This theory denies the exeestence o material substance an insteid contends that familiar objects lik tables an chairs are anly ideas in the minds o perceivers an, as a result, canna exeest withoot bein perceived. Berkeley is an aa kent for his critique o abstraction, an important premise in his argument for immaterialism.

George Berkeley
Portrait o Berkeley bi John Smybert, 1727
Born	12 Mairch 1685(1685-03-12) Coonty Kilkenny, Ireland
Dee'd	14 Januar 1753(1753-01-14) (aged 67) Oxford, Ingland
Naitionality	Irish
Alma mater	Trinity College, Dublin (BA 1704; MA 1707)
Era	18t century filosofie
Region	Wastren Filosofie
Schuil	Idealism Empiricism
Main interests	Christianity, metapheesics, epistemology, leid, mathematics, perception
Notable ideas	Subjective idealism, master argument
Influences John Locke, Isaac Newton, Nicolas Malebranche
Influenced David Hume, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Reid, Arthur Schopenhauer, John Stuart Mill, Ernst Mach, A. J. Ayer, Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett, Francis Bowen, Borden Parker Bowne
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