Principes de la connaissance humaine
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- APAGeorge Berkeley. (n.d.). A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge [Principes de la connaissance humaine]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/george-berkeley/a-treatise-concerning-the-principles-of-human-knowledge
- MLAGeorge Berkeley. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge [Principes de la connaissance humaine]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/george-berkeley/a-treatise-concerning-the-principles-of-human-knowledge.
- ChicagoGeorge Berkeley. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge [Principes de la connaissance humaine]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/george-berkeley/a-treatise-concerning-the-principles-of-human-knowledge.
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De quoi il s'agit
Traité des principes de la connaissance humaine (1710) : être, c'est être perçu.
Contexte et histoire
Berkeley nie que la matière existe : ce qui existe, ce sont des idées et les esprits qui les perçoivent. L'argument n'est pas une excentricité mais une conséquence stricte de l'empirisme de Locke, et personne ne l'a réfuté simplement — le Dr Johnson donnant un coup de pied dans la pierre ne compte pas.
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17. ADVANTAGE OF INVESTIGATING THE DOCTRINE OF ABSTRACT GENERAL IDEAS.--It were an endless as well as an useless thing to trace the SCHOOLMEN, those great masters of abstraction, through all the manifold inextricable labyrinths of error and dispute which their doctrine of abstract natures and notions seems to have led them into. What bickerings and controversies, and what a learned dust have been raised about those matters, and what mighty advantage has been from thence derived to mankind, are things at this day too clearly known to need being insisted on. And it had been well if the ill effects of that doctrine were confined to those only who make the most avowed profession of it. When men consider the great pains, industry, and parts that have for so many ages been laid out on the cultivation and advancement of the sciences, and that notwithstanding all this the far greater part of them remains full of darkness and uncertainty, and disputes that are like never to have an end, and even those that are thought to be supported by the most clear and cogent demonstrations contain in them paradoxes which are perfectly irreconcilable to the understandings of men, and that, taking all together, a very small portion of them does supply any real benefit to mankind, otherwise than by being an innocent diversion and amusement--I say the consideration of all this is apt to throw them into a despondency and perfect contempt of all study. But this may perhaps cease upon a view of the false principles that have obtained in the world, amongst all which there is none, methinks, has a more wide and extended sway over the thoughts of speculative men than [Note.] this of abstract general ideas. [Note: "That we have been endeavouring to overthrow."--Edit 1710.] 18. I come now to consider the SOURCE OF THIS PREVAILING NOTION, and that seems to me to be LANGUAGE.…
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