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(1987) Essays on the philosophy of George Berkeley, Dordrecht, Springer.
Berkeley's divine language argument
pp. 129-142
Dean Berkeley wrote Alciphron during his somewhat impatient stay in Newport. He wanted to get on with the Bermuda project. Students of Berkeley have been impatient with the Alciphron — too much apologetics and too little philosophy. There is one apparent exception. The fourth dialogue, "The Truth of Theism," contains a proof of God's existence. But on a closer look many have found an unexciting version of the design argument, a version easily slain by Hume. T. E. Jessop, not one to underestimate Berkeley, puts it bluntly: "… the proof is the usual one from effect to cause, not the one peculiar to Berkeley."1
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4798-6_8
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(1987)., Berkeley's divine language argument, in E. Sosa (ed.), Essays on the philosophy of George Berkeley, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 129-142.