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

Derived Forms

• Berkeleianism
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Berkeleian

1855–60; George Berkeley + -an

Example Sentences

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

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

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)

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

To the causes thus inferred the name of qualities is given, to distinguish them from the sensations whereof they are causes; and the Berkeleian transgression consists in overlooking the distinction between things so diametrically opposite.

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas