Part one of term paper
The was a time of Empiricism and of Materialism, which brought out philosophers like John Locke and George Berkeley as well as authors like Swift and Pope. These philosophers and authors belong to the because of their use of anti-emotional thought and the idea of Occam's razor. The use of Anti-emotional thought is shown the most in e ...

Part two of term paper
... of Human Knowledge" Berkeley states that for some thing to become an essence that thing must be perceived by any of the 5 senses (touch, smell, hear, taste, or hear). For example a chair, the chair can be seen and touched so it can become an essence only if those senses can perceive the chair. If those 5 senses can not perceive the object than the object is not an essence but an idea of the mind in which, that idea is a belief that can only be proven by the 5 senses. The Idea of Occam's Razor ...