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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editor's Introduction -- Biography and Intellectual Influences -- The Program of the Three Dialogues -- A Synopsis of the Three Dialogues -- The Reception and Subsequent Influence of the Three Dialogues -- Bibliography -- A Note on the Text -- Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- The First Dialogue -- The Second Dialogue -- The Third Dialogue -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introductory Note -- Analytic Table of Contents -- A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge -- The Preface -- Introduction -- Of the Principles of Human Knowledge: Part I -- List of Primary Sources Referred to in the Text -- Index

Irish-born philosopher George Berkeley developed a radical theory of human knowledge that he called ""immaterialism."" Put simply, it was Berkeley's belief that most objects that the human mind perceives as real do not actually exist. Following the back-and-forth conversational style of Socrates, Berkeley sets forth his innovative ideas in dialogue form in this text

Born and educated in Ireland, the eighteenth-century philosopher George Berkeley developed an influential school of thought that later came to be described as ""subjective idealism."" In A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Berkeley lays out the basic principles of his theory