George Berkeley
(1685-1753)
Although Berkeley is often listed along with
John Locke and
David Hume as one of the "British Empiricists," Berkeley was actually an idealist who denied the existence of the material world.
"Esse est percipi," to be is to be perceived, was his motto. What exists is that we see in our perceptions and our resulting concepts.
He described his philosophy as "immaterialism." He was a Platonic idealist in the sense he regarded ideas as prior, but he was an empiricist since he described how we form the ideas from our perceptions of the world, as did Locke and Hume.
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