单词 | berkeleian |
释义 | Berkeleianadj.n. A. adj. Of, relatinɡ to, or characteristic of George Berkeley or his philosophical ideas, esp. his theory of immaterialism.Berkeley is noted especially for his theory of immaterialism, which denies the objective or independent existence of the material world and argues that objects exist only in the perception of humans and of God. See immaterialism n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > subjectivism > [adjective] > of other branches of Berkeleiana1743 egoistica1834 mentalistic1882 immanental1885 non-substantialist1893 philosophico-psychological1899 introjectionist1903 mentalist1948 a1743 A. M. Ramsay Philos. Princ. Nat. & Revealed Relig. (1748) I. iii. 279 All the use that can be made of the Berkeleyan and Malebranchian reasonings against the existence and activity of bodies, is to confute Materialism. 1789 T. Cooper Tracts Ethical, Theol. & Polit. (new ed.) 266 Of matter, we know nothing certainly [footnote:] I reason on the common, not the Berkeleian hypothesis. 1851 H. L. Mansel Prolegomena Logica v. 134 Taking the Berkleian theory in its whole extent. 1878 J. Fiske in N. Amer. Rev. 126 32 Materialists, as a rule, have not mastered the Berkeleian psychology. 1940 Mind 49 45 With this new background the Berkeleian immaterialism took on a new aspect. 1994 H. Bloom Western Canon iv. xxii. 501 The Shelleyan moon parodies the Berkeleyan consciousness, joyless and mutable, because no human being is a worthy candidate for object constancy. B. n. An advocate or follower Berkeley or his philosophical ideas. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > subjectivism > [noun] > Berkeleyism and its adherents materialistc1705 Berkeleianism1752 Berkeleyism1779 Berkeleian1792 1792 D. Stewart Elem. Philos. Human Mind I. Introd. 7 It is plainly a fact totally unconnected with any hypothesis concerning the nature of the soul, and which will be as readily admitted by the materialist as by the Berkeleian. a1861 E. B. Browning Marginalia in Mod. Lang. Notes (1951) 66 458 But surely not by a Berkeleian & after he has demolished internity & externity as vile errors—How contradictory! 1987 Canad. Jrnl. Philos. 17 494 Radical Berkelians do not deny that some unobserved entity..must be posited to account for the regularity of observed phenomena. 2014 Erkenntnis 79 481 There are arbitrarily many finite sets of such propositions combined with everyday concepts. (This is before we add the views found in Cartesians, Berkeleians, and various other unordinary conceptions). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.a1743 |
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