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Ideas for Protagoras, Pythagoras and Mahavastu

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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

1549	Everything that exists consists in being perceived [Protagoras]
	Full Idea: Everything that exists consists in being perceived.
	From: Protagoras (fragments/reports [c.441 BCE]), quoted by Didymus the Blind - Commentary on the Psalms (frags)
	A reaction: A striking anticipation of Berkeley's "esse est percipi" (to be is to be perceived).