... Concerning Human Understanding" (1748) and "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion," David Hume is one of the most influential figures to hail from Great Britain (Morris). Often grouped with John Locke and George Berkeley, Hume is known as the last of the great triumvirate of "British empiricists" (Morris). Empiricism is a theory of knowledge branching from the field of epistemology that asserts the idea that ... ...

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... ? For an empiricist, the conception of God is not innate and there is no way that he could be perceived. The idea of God cannot be attributed to sense data George Berkeley's (1685-1753) concept of God was found to be quite contradictory to his work. Esse is percipi, his theory, states that to be is to be perceived. The controversy with ... ...

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