Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous - Brossura

Berkeley, George

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ISBN 10: 1482616335 ISBN 13: 9781482616330

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

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Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous is a book written by George Berkeley in 1713. Three important concepts discussed in the Three Dialogues are perceptual relativity, the conceivability/master argument ("master argument" was coined by André Gallois, and Berkeley's phenomenalism. Perceptual relativity argues that the same object can appear to have different characteristics (e.g. shape) depending on the observer's perspective. Since objective features of objects cannot change without an inherent change in the object itself, shape must not be an objective feature.

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George Berkeley (12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne), was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others). This theory denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are only ideas in the minds of perceivers, and as a result cannot exist without being perceived. Thus, as Berkeley famously put it, for physical objects "esse est percipi" ("to be is to be perceived"). Berkeley is also known for his critique of abstraction, an important premise in his argument for immaterialism.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1482616335
• ISBN 13: 9781482616330
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 86