Publication

2000 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

65,250 words, Guess

Page Count

261 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads1345026
  • LibraryThing1031198

Classifications

  • DDC192
  • LCCB1348 .P36 2000

Description

"In this account of Bishop George Berkeley's epistemological and metaphysical theories, George S. Pappas seeks to determine precisely what doctrines the philosopher held and what arguments he put forward to support them. Specifically, Pappas overturns accepted opinions about Berkeley's famous attack on the Lockean doctrine of abstract ideas. Berkeley's criticism of these ideas had been thought relevant only to his views on language and to his nominalism; Pappas persuasively argues that Berkeley's ideas about abstraction are crucial to nearly all the fundamental principles that he defends."--BOOK JACKET.

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