Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher
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Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher is a philosophical dialogue by George Berkeley that critiques freethinkers and defends Christian religion and immaterialist philosophy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher Context triple: [George Berkeley, notableWork, Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher]
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A.
Epitome of the Divine Institutes
Epitome of the Divine Institutes is a concise abridgment of Lactantius’s major Christian apologetic work, presenting its theological and philosophical arguments in a shorter, more accessible form.
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B.
Micromégas
Micromégas is a satirical philosophical novella by Voltaire that uses the travels of extraterrestrial beings to critique human nature, religion, and pretensions to knowledge.
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C.
Timaeus
Timaeus is a Platonic dialogue that presents a cosmological account of the universe’s creation, structure, and order through the speech of the character Timaeus.
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D.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is Galileo Galilei’s influential 1632 work that presents and defends the Copernican heliocentric model through a comparative dialogue of astronomical theories.
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E.
Philebus
Philebus is one of Plato’s later philosophical dialogues, chiefly concerned with examining the nature of pleasure, knowledge, and the good life.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher Target entity description: Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher is a philosophical dialogue by George Berkeley that critiques freethinkers and defends Christian religion and immaterialist philosophy.
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A.
Epitome of the Divine Institutes
Epitome of the Divine Institutes is a concise abridgment of Lactantius’s major Christian apologetic work, presenting its theological and philosophical arguments in a shorter, more accessible form.
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B.
Micromégas
Micromégas is a satirical philosophical novella by Voltaire that uses the travels of extraterrestrial beings to critique human nature, religion, and pretensions to knowledge.
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C.
Timaeus
Timaeus is a Platonic dialogue that presents a cosmological account of the universe’s creation, structure, and order through the speech of the character Timaeus.
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D.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is Galileo Galilei’s influential 1632 work that presents and defends the Copernican heliocentric model through a comparative dialogue of astronomical theories.
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E.
Philebus
Philebus is one of Plato’s later philosophical dialogues, chiefly concerned with examining the nature of pleasure, knowledge, and the good life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical dialogue ⓘ |
| aim |
to refute fashionable irreligion
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to show reasonableness of Christianity ⓘ |
| author | George Berkeley ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Great Britain ⓘ |
| criticizes |
deism
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freethinkers ⓘ religious skepticism ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Alciphron
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Crito ⓘ Euphranor ⓘ Lysicles ⓘ |
| form | dialogue ⓘ |
| genre |
Christian apologetics
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philosophy ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
critique of abstract ideas
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existence of God ⓘ morality and religion ⓘ nature of religion ⓘ role of language in philosophy ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Enlightenment debates about religion ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Christian theology
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empiricist epistemology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
critique of freethinkers
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defense of Christian religion ⓘ defense of immaterialist philosophy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
integration of immaterialism with Christian apologetics
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systematic critique of deist morality ⓘ |
| philosophicalArgumentType | dialogical argument ⓘ |
| philosophicalIssue |
meaning and use of religious language
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relationship between faith and reason ⓘ status of moral obligation without religion ⓘ |
| philosophicalPositionDefended |
Christian theism
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immaterialism ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
British empiricism
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early modern philosophy ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1732 ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
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Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous ⓘ |
| religiousPerspective |
Anglican Christianity
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linked to:
Anglicanism (broadly)
|
| setting | rural countryside ⓘ |
| structure | series of dialogues ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
contemporary freethinkers
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educated lay readers ⓘ |
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