George Berkley Flashcards
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background
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- 1685 - 1753
- born and educated in Ireland
- taught at Trinity college
- donated his house and library to Yale
- town of Berkley, California
- 1709: “An essay towards a new theory of vision” and
- 1710: “A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge”
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How did he expand on Locke’s idea of Secondary qualities?
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he claimed that there were no primary qualities - everything that exists depends on the presence of something to perceive it.
3
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mentalism
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all knowledge is a function of the experiencing/perceiving person
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