Bishop George Berkeley, circa 1685-1753 CE,
The Basic Argument: (1) Matter was only known to us by its sensible qualities. (2) It was impossible to describe, or even imagine matter without these qualities. (3) Absence of sensible qualities, matter, by definition, loses its essential qualities
. Work Cited Bishop Berkeley, George.
Complete Works of George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous,
Oxford Clarendon Press, 1901 CE. Digital. Accessed 4/15/2022 CE.
Bishop George Berkeley upheld,
that sensible qualities were not inherent in matter. But, ascribed and understood by the mind,
Work Cited Bishop Berkeley, George.
Complete Works of George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous,
Oxford Clarendon Press, 1901 CE. Digital. Accessed 4/15/2022 CE.
The man was a genius and that Idealism: All external reality disappears, and it proceeds directly from him. Work Cited Bishop Berkeley, George.
Complete Works of George Berkeley, Berkeley by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
'Lectures on the History of Philosophy', Translated by Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, Delphi Classics, 2019 CE, Accessed 4/15/2022 CE, Digital.
Hylas, "...The substance and its qualities being entirely unknown to me." Phil, "What? You are then of opinion..." Lol. Have fun with that quote.
