ImmatërIalIşm, s

[Pref. im - in- =not, and Eng. materialism.] Phil .: A term sometimes so widely taken as to be a synonym for Idealism (q. v.) or Phenomenalism; more usually limited to the doctrine of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne (1684-1753). Prof. A. C. Fraser ( Works of G. Berkeley , i. 120) reduces this system to three principles:-(1) The negation of Matter, as signifying an unperceiving and unperceived substance and cause; (2) The affirmation, as Substance proper, of the Ego; and, as Cause proper, as consisting of the ideas, objects, or perceptions of of a reasonable will; (3) The affirmation of sonse; of material substances usually called sensible things; and of material causes or uniform antecedents in the order of sensible changes. "Berkeley was the founder of a doctrine of universal Immaterialism ."- Ueberweg : Hist. Philos ., ii. 88.