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George Berkeley
Imagine a world in which the invisible is more trusted than the seen. Where philosophers build vast systems on things no one ever touches, and the most basic facts of daily life—like the solidity of a table—hide secret puzzles. Into this shifting landscape, a young Irish thinker arrives, ready to question the very ground beneath our feet.The late sixteen hundreds was an age of upheaval for philosophy. Ancient certainties about the world’s foundations were fading, but the new science hadn’t yet settled what reality was made of. George Berkeley was born in County Kilkenny in sixteen eighty…
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