1. The eighteenth-century philosopher Bishop George Berkeley proposed similar ideas in his theory of idealism.

2. The college boasts alumni like author Jonathan Swift and philosopher George Berkeley[Sentencedict.com], the namesake of what is now the University of California - Berkeley.

3. George Berkeley (/ ˈ b ɑːr k l i /; 12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753) – known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland) – was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others).This theory denies the existence of material substance and instead