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Contemporaneo di Berkeley, con il quale concorda nella conclusione, benché diversamente stabilita, d

Contemporary of Berkeley, with whom he agrees in the conclusion, though differently established

Volume III · p. 1157 · 1949

English translation · Testo originale italiano

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Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

Contemporary of Berkeley, with whom he agrees in the conclusion—though differently established—of the non-existence of the external world. Philosophically, he depends mainly on Malebranche.

Principal work: *Clovis Universalis, or a New Inquiry after Truth, being a Demonstration of the Non-Existence or Impossibility of an External World* (1713; published several times).

Bibl.: A. W. Ward – A. R. Waller, *The Cambridge History of English Literature*, IX, Cambridge 1912, pp. 287–88, 202; Ueberweg, III, pp. 399, 692.