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Immaterialism

a term sometimes so widely taken as to be a synonym for Idealism or Phenomenalism; more usually limited to the doctrine of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne (1684-1753).

Prof. A. C. Fraser reduces this system to three principles: The negation of matter, as signifying an unperceiving and unperceived substance proper, of the Ego; and, as cause proper, of a reasonable will; The affirmation of matter, as consisting of the ideas, objects, or perceptions of sense; of material sub- Vol. V-Cyc-I IMMERMANN stances usually called sensible things; and of material causes or uniform antecedents in the order of sensible changes.

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