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George Berkely

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Berkeley, after abolishing matter, is only saved from complete subjectivism by a use of God which most subsequent philosophers have regarded as illegitimate.
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Bertrand Russell, in A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Book Three, "Modern Philosophy", Part I., "From the Renaissance to Hume", Ch. I, "General Characteristics", p. 494.

 
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