in the late 17th and early 18th century a teacher from Trinity College in Dublin known as George Berkeley, whom eventually became a Anglican Bishop of Cloyne emerged out shadows to oppose John Locke's Theory of Human Knowledge. In which Berkeley denies Locke's theory and reduced the reality of the external world to the existence of finite spirits and the infinite spirit, God. He issues his theory of "Omne esse est percipi," or to be …
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…existence of finite spirits and the infinite spirit, God. "Omne esse est percipi," or to be is to be perceived. God doesn't fit this one requirement of Berkeley's theory. The one thing that Berkeley states is that the unperceived world by man is being perceived, and staying in existence, by God. In Berkeley's theory of Human Knowledge all things must be perceived to exist, with this God can't exist and keep the unperceived world existent?