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According to Berkeley's influential critic A. A. Luce, the essence of Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge is that 'the existence of passive, unthinking things is to be perceived (esse est percipi), and (...) the existence of minds or active things is to perceive (esse est percipere)' with the result that 'all sensible objects have [no] existence natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding'. The implications of this theory were pondered, among many others, by James Joyce's character Stephen Dedalus in the Proteus episode of Ulysses, who self-consciously wonders: 'Who watches me here? Who ever anywhere will read these written words? Signs on a white field'.
Jeremy Pepyat 1710
Translated into: Armenian, Georgian
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