Berkeleianism. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Berkeleianism

SYLLABICATION:	Berke·le·ian·ism
PRONUNCIATION:	bärkl--nzm, bûr-
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.
OTHER FORMS:	Berkele·ian —ADJECTIVE & NOUN


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