THE BERKELEYAN CONCEPTION OF NATURE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18372/2412-2157.12.8234Abstract
The aim of the article is to show various meanings of nature in Berkeleyan philosophy: in his mechanic philosophy, optics, in his understanding of ether and the theory of beauty.References
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