Immaterialist

Samuel Johnson once showed his contempt for the “immaterialist” views of Bishop Berkeley — in essence, arguing that perception is the only reality — by kicking a rock and saying, “I refute him thusly.” ❋ Murphy, Cullen (2008)

The former would make Malebranche an idealist or an immaterialist, the latter a Spinozist, but he rejects all such epithets. ❋ Nolan, Lawrence (2008)

After all, what would we gain in saying materialist views of mind are science but not as rational to believe in than immaterialist views? ❋ Unknown (2005)

On the contrary, as was indicated above, he holds that only an immaterialist account of such objects can avoid skepticism about their existence and nature. ❋ Downing, Lisa (2004)

(as Berkeley needed to convince his readers in both books) that a commonsensical philosophy could be built on an immaterialist foundation, that no one but a skeptic or atheist would ever miss matter. ❋ Downing, Lisa (2004)

(sometimes styled the Philosophical Commentaries), which he began in 1707, provide rich documentation of Berkeley's early philosophical evolution, enabling the reader to track the emergence of his immaterialist philosophy from a critical response to Descartes, ❋ Downing, Lisa (2004)

The immaterialist proceeds to say, that what we call matter has been strewn to be so exceedingly porous, that, for any thing we know, all the solid particles in the universe might be contained in a nutshell, that there is no such thing in the external world as actual contact, and that no two particles of matter were ever so near to each other, but that they might be brought nearer, if a sufficient force could be applied for that purpose. ❋ Unknown (1831)