“Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.”

— George Berkeley
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George Berkeley, philosopher of the immaterial and bishop of Cloyne was born #otd 1685 in Dysart Castle #Kilkenny

A post on Berkeley's immaterialism and how it has been misunderstood

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/03/12/berkeleys-immaterialism/

Including by a 19th century satire of immaterialism included among other satires of the Irish...
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/04/11/berkeley-irish-archetype/

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#OliverGoldsmith died #OTD 1774. Novelist, poet, playwright. He lived by his pen, also writing philosophical essays, including on aesthetics (as debated by Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke) https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/04/04/goldsmith-coda/

Wrote first bio of #GeorgeBerkeley including this wild story from college days https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/06/23/berkeley-strung-out/

Wrote an early elegy for a selection of friends, including #EdmundBurke https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/04/04/here-lies-edmund/

The original "Citizen of the World" https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-95900-9_3

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What! can anything be more fantastical, more repugnant to Common Sense, or a more manifest piece of Scepticism, than to believe there is no such thing as MATTER? -- George Berkeley.

(Or, why, even if a philosopher wrote it, doesn't mean he meant it.)

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Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1829-1913), Kantian scholar and critic of Berkeley's theory of vision. Born #otd in 1829.

#DIB bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/abbott-thomas-kingsmill-a0005

Berkeley's theory of vision and Abbott's critique: https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/12/18/small-far-away/

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