George Berkeley was born in 1685 near Dysert Castle, Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, where he was introduced to philosophies of Descartes and Locke. Berkeley’s subjective idealism means all things are constituted by mind and its ideas and things (ideas) depend on perception for their existence. His theory is focused on the citation “to be is to be perceived”. Berkeley thinks that in the absence of a perceiver, the tree’s sound, color, taste including its sound waves, color frequencies, shape, motion, coconuts, the sand, mountains and the entire island cease to exist. Berkeley’s philosophy can be stated as “Ideas exist only in minds, All things are Ideas. Therefore, all things exist only in minds”. (read full text…)
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