Esse est percipi

Japanese: エッセ・エスト・ペルキピ(英語表記)Esse est percipi
Esse est percipi
This proposition represents Berkeley's subjective idealism, which states that "to be is to be perceived." In other words, he considered material substances, which are considered to have sensory qualities, to be unknowable and meaningless, and considered each object to be a combination of sensations and representations in our minds. It is well known that this proposition was criticized by Kant as agnosticism.

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Japanese:
「あるとは知覚されることである」とするバークリーの主観的観念論の立場を表わす命題。すなわち彼は,感覚的性質をになうものとして考えられた物質的実体なるものは不可知で,無意味であるとして,個々の物体はわれわれの精神のなかにある感覚,表象の結合と考えた。この命題がカントにより不可知論と批判されたことは有名。

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