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What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

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George Berkeley
Age: 67 †
Born: 1685
Born: March 12
Died: 1753
Died: January 14
Anglican Priest
Epistemologist
Metaphysician
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Philosopher Of Science
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Bishop George Berkeley
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
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Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
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But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [. . .] and nobody by to perceive them. [...] The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived the trees therefore are in the garden [. . .] no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them.
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