Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous was the final statement by the empiricist philosopher George Berkeley, Bishop of Coyne, (1685-1753) on his views concerning subjective idealism, couched in the famous statement `esse is percipi' - to be is to be perceived (mixing Latin with a bit of English was Berkeley's idiosyncrasy!).

In his first book on the subject, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Berkeley proposed that the physical world exists only in the experience...