Single Idea 1549

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism]

Full Idea

Everything that exists consists in being perceived.

Gist of Idea

Everything that exists consists in being perceived

Source

Protagoras (fragments/reports [c.441 BCE]), quoted by Didymus the Blind - Commentary on the Psalms (frags)

Book Reference

'The First Philosophers', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 2000], p.214


A Reaction

A striking anticipation of Berkeley's "esse est percipi" (to be is to be perceived).