Berkeley Challenges Material Substratum
Berkeley examined whether an unperceived material support for sensible qualities could be coherently conceived. His questioning prepared the immaterialist thesis presented in his published works.
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1708 in Ireland
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Berkeley Questions Abstract Ideas
In his early notebooks Berkeley scrutinized the notion that the mind can isolate perfectly general abstract ideas. This criticism later became central to the introduction of his Principles.
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