Berkeleian

American  

[burk-lee-uhn, burk-lee-, bahrk-lee-uhn, bahrk-lee-] / ˈbɜrk li ən, bɜrkˈli-, ˈbɑrk li ən, bɑrkˈli- /

adjective

1. pertaining or relating to George Berkeley or his philosophy.

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noun

1. an advocate of the philosophy of George Berkeley, especially its denial of the existence of a material world.

Berkeleian British  

/ bɑːˈklɪən /

adjective

1. denoting or relating to the philosophy of George Berkeley

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noun

1. a follower of his teachings

Other Word Forms

• Berkeleianism
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Berkeleian

1855–60; George Berkeley + -an

Example Sentences

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Berkeleian

Arbuthnot, Swift, and a host of the greater and lesser lights in literature, from his time to ours, have made merry over the supposed unrealities in the midst of which the Berkeleian must live.

From An Introduction to Philosophy by Fullerton, George Stuart

For the Berkeleian scholarship he and another were judged equal, and, drawing lots, the other gained the scholarship; but they divided the honor.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 by Various

Throughout the other parts of his discussion, we by no means intended to say that such was the view he took of the Berkeleian theory.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 by Various

But the Berkeleian way of meeting this difficulty is so familiar that I need not enlarge upon it now.

From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand

It has been pointed out that in some of them the author anticipates the essential doctrines of the Berkeleian philosophy, and in them is also revealed a personality of rare purity and fascination.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)