This study and the topic of George Berkeley and common sense is challenging: Berkeley claims that matter does not exist and at the same time he writes a whole book (Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous) on how his system agrees with common sense. Berkeley was a successful scientist and his book defined the topic of psychology of vision for the next two centuries.

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Marek Tome ek is Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Humanities, Faculty of Transportation Sciences at Czech Technical University, Prague. He earned his PhD in philosophy from Charles University, Prague.

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Contents: Berkeley s Optics Berkeley s Common Sense The Hidden Metaphor Explicit and Implicit Common Sense Modern Analogies of Implicit Common Sense Epistemology in the Middle of the Twentieth Century Idea and Thing Continuity of Unperceived Objects Continuity and God How Does Berkeley Prove God Then?