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AAbstract ideas, xviii, 44, 51, 55, 129, 161,

163–164, 167, 194Aether (Fire), xvi, 22–27, 74–85, 87–105,

106, 107–113, 116–119Air, 83–84, 96, 98–99Alciphron, x, xiv, xviii, 6–7, 12–14, 28,

31, 44–46, 88, 126, 129–133, 136, 138, 142, 160, 169, 181, 194–195

Analyst, xi, xiv, 6, 12–13, 18, 21–22, 27–28

Analytic philosophy, ix–xiiiAnselm from Laon, 137Archetypes/ectypes, 124, 188Aristotelian philosophy, xix, 11, 94, 95, 97,

99, 100, 102, 108, 143, 146, 190Aristotle, 113, 117, 190Atheism, xv, xviii, 160, 162, 171, 173, 174,

176, 177, 181, 188Attraction, theory of, 91, 94–95, 98–99,

103–104, 112, 108–113, 119

BBacon, Francis, xvBaxter, Andrew, xviii, 172, 174–176,

188, 189, 198Bayle, Pierre, xviii, 4, 146, 151–153, 154,

162, 177, 181, 199Bentley, Richard, 95, 109Berman, David, 131–132, 184Biblical exegesis, 137Biology, philosophy of, 91, 98Boerhaave, Hermann, 77, 81–82, 117Boyle, Robert, 83, 92–93, 97, 99, 100,

115–116, 143Bracken, Henry M., 3, 171, 172Brykman, Geneviève, 4, 11, 181, 188

CCausal relation, xv, xvii, 31–39, 88–92,

100–101, 104–105, 108–113, 118–119, 183

Chain of being, xvi, xix, 25, 107, 113, 192, 196Chemistry, philosophy of, xvi, 73–85, 102–103Church, 130, 138–139; Anglican, 63, 66, 68,

168; of Rome, 128–129, 177Clayton, Robert, xviii, 172, 180, 184–188Cognitivism, 31–39Collins, Anthony, 160Common sense, 143, 154, 168Contarine, Thomas, 156Corpuscolarianism, xvi–xvii, 22–27, 88–105;

109–110, 116–118Creation, 10, 13–14, 89, 134, 145, 168–169,

178, 181, 183, 188Cudworth, Ralph, 117

DDeism, 142, 169Democritus, 118De motu, xi, 7–8, 13, 20, 28, 75, 88, 94, 98,

100, 104, 110, 127Derrida, Jacques, 58Descartes, René, xvi, xvii, xviii, 4–6, 10, 11,

47–51, 52, 53, 54, 58, 87–89, 92, 94, 99, 108–112, 118, 143, 146–152, 154, 157, 163, 165, 169, 173–174, 177, 178, 186, 190–191, 194

Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, ix, xii, 4–5, 8, 13, 88, 94, 99, 124–125, 164, 172, 194

Divine language theory, 11, 134Downing, Lisa, 15, 22–26, 109–110Dualism, xviii, xix, 147–148, 152, 155, 161,

165, 168–169, 186, 190–192

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EElectricity, theory of, 91, 94–95, 98, 101,

103, 112Enlightenment (Age of Reason), xiii, xv,

63, 68, 144; radical, 159, 169Enthusiasm, xvii, 87–89Epicurus, 118, 162Evil daemon, 147, 149Explanation, models of, xvii, 26, 88–105,

107–116

FFara, Patricia, 88Fathers of the Church, 128, 134–135,

137, 138Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe,

172, 177Ficino, Marsilio, xvii, 23, 118Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de, 177Formalism (in mathematics), xv–xvi,

43–55Foucher, Simon, 152Free-thinkers, xviii, 13, 126, 138, 160, 171,

174, 195–196

GGalilei, Galileo, 114, 143Gassendi, Pierre, 118God’s existence (proofs of), 123–127,

132, 173, 187; God’s presence (experience), 123–126, 131–132, 134, 174

Goldsmith, Oliver, 155–156Gravity, theory of, xvi–xvii, 87–105Guardian essays, x, xviii, 155, 165, 196

HHales, Stephen, 83–84Hobbes, Thomas, xviii, 146–147, 149,

155, 157, 160, 162, 165, 174, 176

Holy Scripture (Bible), 125–126, 128, 130–134, 136–137, 139, 156, 164, 179, 188

Homberg, Wilhelm, xvi, 74–80, 82–85, 105, 117

Home, Henry, 187, 188Hume, David, xi, xv, xvi, 7, 10, 31, 36–39,

57–59, 63, 68–70, 113Hutcheson, Francis, 177Hutchinson, John, 88

IIamblichus, 136Idealism, xiii, 8, 11, 58, 173, 176, 178, 179,

181, 182, 184, 195, 196Imagination, xix, 48, 164, 166–168, 193Immanence, theory of, 127, 160, 162–163,

179, 183Immaterialism: metaphysics of, xi–xii, xvii,

8, 16, 20, 27, 34, 105, 123, 127–128, 134–136, 156, 160, 161, 164, 168, 173–176, 180, 188, 189, 191–192; origins of, 141–142, 157; ‘esse is percipi’ principle, xiv, xviii, 24, 124, 145, 155, 157

Innate ideas, doctrine of, 10–11Instrumentalism, xv, 15–29, 44–55Israel, Jonathan, xv, 159

JJames, John, 129Jesseph, Douglas, 15, 17, 22, 27–28, 44Johnson, Samuel, xv, 13, 88, 187, 189,

191, 197–199

KKant, Immanuel, 58–60, 171Kierkegaard, Søren, 151–152Kircher, Athanasius, 107Kuhn, Thomas, 61, 114

LLanguage of nature, 11–12, 13Language, philosophy of, xv, 31–39Le Febvre, Nicaise, 73Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, xvi, xix,

20, 22, 28, 47, 48, 52–53, 54, 116, 197–198

Locke, John, xi, xvi, 3–6, 10, 11, 12, 57–59, 63–67, 70, 115–116, 143, 146, 150–151, 154, 157, 160–163, 167, 177, 194

Luce, Arthur A., xi, 3, 151Luther, Martin 134, 137

MMachiavelli, Niccolò, xviii, 155Machine, 155, 170, 190, 195, 197Magnetism, theory of, 91, 94–95, 98, 101,

103, 112

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Malebranche, Nicolas, xi, xvi, xviii, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 47–51, 52, 53, 54, 146, 149–152, 154, 161, 162, 172–174, 177, 178, 182, 183, 185, 187

Mandeville, Bernard de, 160Marx, Karl, 58Materialism, materialists, 16, 24, 67, 147, 169,

176, 178, 180, 182, 184, 188, 195Mathematics, philosophy of, xv–xvi, 21–22,

27–28, 43–55McCracken, Charles, 4, 176Mechanism, xvi–xvii, 88–105, 108–119, 176Mind, theories of, xv, xvi, 4, 8–14, 168Moked, Gabriel, 22–23, 109Money, philosophy of, xvi, 57–70Monism (ontological), xviii, 161, 163,

168–169, 172, 180, 187, 188More, Henry, 117, 161, 177Moses, 136

NNecessity, xvi, 31, 37–39, 66–67, 78, 113,

149, 170, 174–175, 179, 183Newton, Isaac, xv, xvi, xvii, 20, 21, 22, 26, 28,

63, 74–85, 87–105, 108–112, 117, 118, 119, 143, 177

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 142Nieuwentyt, Bernard, 117Norris, John, 4

OOldenburgh, Henry, 163Ontological argument (to prove God’s

existence), 123

PPantheism, 148–149, 174, 179Parmenides, 10Percival, Sir John, 87, 159, 169Peter Lombard, 128Philosophical Commentaries (or Notebooks),

ix–x, xv, xviii, 5, 7–8, 13, 16, 88, 123, 127–128, 153–156, 160–165, 168, 181, 192, 197

Plato, 10, 63, 113, 117, 136, 142, 186, 193Platonism, xvii; Christian, 135Plotinus, 114, 117, 136Popkin, Richard, 4, 151Prior, Thomas, 73Prisca sapientia, 117, 177Proclus, 136

QQualities: sensible, 8, 16, 20, 94, 98, 173;

primary/secondary, 64, 66, 67, 94, 147, 152, 180; occult, 94–95, 102, 104, 111, 165

Querist, xi, xiv, xvi, 6, 12–13, 57, 63, 66–67

RRamsey, Andrew Michael, xviii, 172,

177–184, 188Raphson, Joseph, 160–163Realism, 15–16, 22–27, 146, 154Renaissance, xiv, xv, xvii, xix, 108, 117, 118Representationalism, xviii, 144, 151, 153Revelation, 133–139Roberts, John, 5

SScepticism (skepticism, pyrrhonism),

xvii–xviii, 142–157, 169, 175–176Scholastic theology, xvii, 127–131; philoso-

phy, 143, 146Scruples, 143–145, 147, 151, 154Sergeant, John, 190, 194Sextus Empiricus, xviii, 145–146, 152Shaftesbury, lord Anthony Ashley Cooper,

third Earl of, 143, 160Signs, doctrine of, xv, xvi, xvii, 12, 17–27,

44–55, 113–116, 194Simmel, Georg, 59–63Siris, x–xi, xiv, xvi–xviii, 6–7, 10, 12–14, 20,

22–27, 29, 73–85, 87–106, 107–119, 127, 130, 135–136, 142, 185–187, 192–193, 197–198

Solipsism (egoism), 171, 175Soul (mind), xvii, xviii–xix, 5, 10, 20, 60, 106,

130, 133, 143, 150, 164–166, 174–175, 182, 189–198; of the world, 73, 117–118, 197

Spiegel, J. S., 134Spinoza, Baruch, xiv, xviii, 136–139,

146–149, 155, 157, 159–170, 172–174, 177–179, 181, 184, 185, 187, 188

Spinozism, xv, xviii, 160, 163, 171–172, 177–182, 188

Spirit (aether, fire), 106, 107–108, 116–119; animal, 25, 91, 112, 118–119; finite/infinite (mind), 10, 13, 25, 124–126, 131–132, 139, 168, 173–175, 179, 180–181, 188, 189, 192–194, 196, 198

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Standard interpretation (of Berkeley’s philosophy), or standard approach, ix, xii, xiv, 3–14

Stevenson, John, 177Stoic philosophy, 6, 11, 112, 113Stoics, xvii, 90–91, 112, 117, 160

TTar-Water, xvi, 23, 26, 73, 90, 102–103Taylor, Jeremy, 144Tertullian, 134Theism, 142, 148Theology: Berkeleian conception of, 127–136;

rational or natural/revealed, 132–133, 134, 137, 139, 141–143, 177

Theory of Vision: New; xi, xiv, 13, 191 Vindicated and Explained, 13, 142

Thomas Aquinas, 127–128Tipton, Ian, 176Toland, John, 160Tournemine, René-Joseph, 172–173, 188Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human

Knowledge, ix, xii, 4, 114, 124–126, 129–130, 159, 172

VVanini, Giulio Cesare, 174Veil of perception, 144Vision, theory of, xiii, 165–166

WWinkler, Henry, 113Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 164