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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun George Berkeley's philosophy of subjective idealism, which holds that material objects have no independent being but exist only as concepts in God's mind and as perceptions of those concepts in other minds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The philosophy of Bishop Berkeley. See
Berkeleian .
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No evasions, no sophisms (a multitude of which we shall yet encounter) can remove the clear and indisputable fact that Ernst Mach's doctrine that things are complexes of sensations is subjective idealism and a simple rehash of Berkeleianism.
Neutral Monism Stubenberg, Leopold 2005
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Mentalist: - (From The Free Dictionary. com) mentalism the doctrine that objects of knowledge have no existence except in the mind of the perceiver, as in Berkeleianism. - mentalist, n. - mentalistic, adj. the doctrine that objects of knowledge have no existence except in the mind of the perceiver. - mentalist, n. - mentalistic, adj.
Guy Fawkes' blog guidoadmin 2009
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