Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E710001-001

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Author: George Berkeley

Background details and bibliographic information

File Description

Thomas J. McCormack

Electronic edition compiled and proofread by Beatrix Färber

1. First draft.

Extent of text: 39680 words

Publication

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(2013)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E710001-001

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Notes

Sources

    Literature mentioned
  1. Isaac Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687).
    Bibliography, biography, and works about Berkeley
  1. Thomas Edmund Jessop, A bibliography of George Berkeley (London: Oxford University Press 1934).
  2. Arthur Aston Luce and Thomas Edmund Jessop (eds), The works of George Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne (London: Thomas Nelson & Sons 1948).
  3. Arthur Aston Luce, The life of George Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne. 9 volumes (London: Nelson 1949-57).
    Internet sources
  1. The printed text is available in .pdf format at http://www. archive.org.
  2. M. A. Stewart, DNB entry on 'Berkeley, George (1685–1753)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004, online edn, May 2005; at http://www.oxforddnb.com.
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Thomas J. McCormack (ed), Reprint [xv+ 128 pages] The Open Court Publishing Company Chicago (1910)

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CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

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The electronic text represents the edited text. Text supplied by the editor noting passages differing from the first edition appears in brackets. The editor's notes are integrated and numbered. Words and phrases marked by italics or capitals in the printed edition have been encoded. Berkeley's abbreviation 'sect.' for 'section' has been expanded throughout. Quotations from Scripture have not been encoded in cit tags.

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Profile Description

Created: by George Berkeley (1710)

Use of language

Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [LA] Some words and phrases are in Latin.

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