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The paper discusses how in George Berkeley's "The Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous", Berkeley argues that matter doesn't exist, that it is perception that creates human reality.

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"George Berkeley was an Irish philosopher who in 1713 wrote "The Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous". In this book, Berkeley discusses topics integral to philosophical thought, like how reality is perceptive and based on the person perceiving the reality's perspective. Basically, everything is subject to the whims of the perceiver and "The Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous" discusses the case for this in different ways. In George Berkeley's "The Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous", Berkeley argues that matter doesn't exist, that it is perception that creates human reality."

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