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Berkeley, scientific realism and creation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

P. A. Byrne
Affiliation:
University of London, King's College

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‘That a corporeal substance, which hath absolute existence without the minds of spirits, should be produced out of nothing by the mere will of a spirit hath been looked upon as a thing so contrary to all reason, so impossible and absurd, that not only the most celebrated amongst the ancients, but even divers modern and Christian philosophers have thought matter co-eternal with the Deity.’

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