Kenneth L. Pearce — George Berkeley and the power of words

Summary:
John Locke's epistemological realism versus George Berkeley's linguistic constructivism. Subsequent findings favor Berkeley's view. Human's participate in the construct of their reality through the way they express themselves about it and their relationship to it. Short and worth a read.OUPblog — Oxford University Press's Academic Insights for the Thinking WorldGeorge Berkeley and the power of words Kenneth L. Pearce | Ussher Assistant Professor in Berkeley Studies (Early Modern Philosophy) in Trinity College Dublin

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Mike Norman considers the following as important: constructivism, epistemology, George Berkeley, John Locke, philosophical logic, realism, subjective idealism, theory of knowledge

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