One work by this author attempts to defend the truth of divine revelation against such Freethinkers as the Earl of Shaftesbury; titled with the name of a Greek sophist, it is subtitled The Minute Philosopher. In addition to writing Alciphron, this author also rejected Newtonian mechanics in De Motu. He critiques materialist ontologies and empiricist epistemologies in a work that presents his so-called "master argument," regarding conceivability in which one of the interlocutors is meant to represent John Locke. Claiming "to be is to be perceive
One work by this author attempts to defend the truth of divine revelation against such Freethinkers as the Earl of Shaftesbury; titled with the name of a Greek sophist, it is subtitled The Minute Philosopher. In addition to writing Alciphron, this author also rejected Newtonian mechanics in De Motu. He critiques materialist ontologies and empiricist epistemologies in a work that presents his so-called "master argument," regarding conceivability in which one of the interlocutors is meant to represent John Locke. Claiming "to be is to be perceived," FTP name this Anglo-Irish immaterialist philosopher and fan of tar-water, author of Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.
One work by this author attempts to defend the truth of divine revelation against such Freethinkers as the Earl of Shaftesbury; titled with the name of a Greek sophist, it is subtitled The Minute Philosopher.
George {Berkeley}