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For unthinking things, to exist is to be perceived; they cannot exist outside minds
Drawn from what George Berkeley said
What George Berkeley actually said
- George Berkeley Anglo-Irish philosopher and bishop (1685 to 1753)
For as to what is said of the absolute existence of unthinking things without any relation to their being perceived, that seems perfectly unintelligible. Their ESSE is PERCIPI, nor is it possible they should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them.
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↗A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)gutenberg.org
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