Berkeley
OriginIreland
Era1685
SchoolEmpiricism
About Berkeley
Argued that material substance does not exist, only minds and ideas. The phrase esse est percipi means to be is to be perceived. Samuel Johnson kicked a stone and said I refute it thus. A city and university in California are named after him. His philosophy was later taken seriously by quantum physics.
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Hume
The problem of induction: we can never prove the sun will rise tomorrow. His bundle theory...
Locke
The father of liberalism and empirical epistemology. The tabula rasa or blank slate theory...
Francis Bacon
Declared that knowledge is power. The Novum Organum proposed induction in place of syllogi...