This philosopher's debt to the occasionalism of Nicholas Malebranche is examined in a book by Arthur Luce.
This philosopher's debt to the occasionalism of Nicholas Malebranche is examined in a book by Arthur Luce. He attacked freethinkers such as Bernard Mandeville in a set of dialogues named for the title "minute philosopher." This philosopher countered the notion that ideas resemble material objects with his "likeness principle." Against John Locke, this philosopher argued that (*) primary qualities are subjective since they cannot be abstracted from secondary qualities. This philosopher's "master argument" claims that mindindependent objects do not exist since one cannot conceive them. For 10 points, name this Irish bishop who held that the world consisted only of ideas and God in works like Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous.
This philosopher's debt to the occasionalism of Nicholas Malebranche is examined in a book by Arthur Luce.
George Berkeley