This writer wrote a treatise that mockingly asks whether some "evanescent increments" should be referred to as "ghosts of departed quantities." He wrote a "chain of reflections and inquiries" in his book Siris to advocate the use of a folk- remedy by his disease-ridden countrymen. This man criticized the idea of infinitesimal calculus in his "discourse addressed to an infidel mathematician," titled The Analyst. His book on the "principles of human knowledge" rejects Locke's idea of primary qualities, and includes the maxim "to be is to be perceived." For 10 points, name this Irish philosopher who wrote Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision and
This writer wrote a treatise that mockingly asks whether some "evanescent increments" should be referred to as "ghosts of departed quantities." He wrote a "chain of reflections and inquiries" in his book Siris to advocate the use of a folk- remedy by his disease-ridden countrymen. This man criticized the idea of infinitesimal calculus in his "discourse addressed to an infidel mathematician," titled The Analyst. His book on the "principles of human knowledge" rejects Locke's idea of primary qualities, and includes the maxim "to be is to be perceived." For 10 points, name this Irish philosopher who wrote Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous.
This writer wrote a treatise that mockingly asks whether some "evanescent increments" should be referred to as "ghosts of departed quantities."
George Berkeley