人类知识原理

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Berkeley published the book in Dublin in 1710, at the age of 25, as “Part I”; a second part was never published, and he said he lost its manuscript in Italy. A long introduction attacks the doctrine of abstract ideas, using Locke’s example of a general idea of a triangle. The main text, in 156 numbered sections, argues that the objects of perception are ideas, that ideas exist only in minds, and that the order of nature is the language in which God speaks to us. Because the book was little understood, Berkeley restated its theses more accessibly in the “Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous” (1713).

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