A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

George Berkeley (/brkl/;[1][2] 12 March 1685 14 January 1753) 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...