klg19:A happy and material birthday, fully perceived, to philosopher George Berkeley, Bishop of Coyn
klg19:A happy and material birthday, fully perceived, to philosopher George Berkeley, Bishop of Coyne (12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753).It was Bishop Berkeley who, as part of his theory of immaterialism, phrased as esse est percipi (“to be is to be perceived”), asked the question “If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there, does it make a sound”?Dr Samuel Johnson, the Great Lexicographer, had no patience with Berkeley’s theories and, on a walk with his biography James Boswell, famously kicked a stone, saying, “I refute it thus!” -- source link