In it the author attacks John Locke's notion of the "abstract general idea" as being incoherent and seeks to collapse the distinction that Locke made between nominal and real essence.
In it the author attacks John Locke's notion of the "abstract general idea" as being incoherent and seeks to collapse the distinction that Locke made between nominal and real essence. In its first section a definition of a skeptic is offered and then the author goes on to claim that the path to skepticism is directly through materialism. The latter sections offer a solution, in attempting to prove that idealism or immateralism leads to faith in common sense. To this end, the author utilizes two characters as mouthpieces for the material and idealist causes. FTP, name this 1713 work by George Berkeley.
In it the author attacks John Locke's notion of the "abstract general idea" as being incoherent and seeks to collapse the distinction that Locke made between nominal and real essence.
{Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonus}