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Quotation from A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley
“Their ESSE is PERCIPI, nor is it possible they should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them.”
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Part I, section 3 (Project Gutenberg text (capitals as printed))
The book's central formula, stated after Berkeley explains what it means to say the table in his study exists.
Citation: "Their ESSE is PERCIPI, nor is it possible they should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them." — George Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Part I, section 3 (Project Gutenberg text (capitals as printed)). (id berkeley-principles-of-human-knowledge-q4)
Portrait: George Berkeley by Jonh Smibert, John Smibert, Public domain.
