[burk-lee-uh
n, burk-lee-; especially Brit. bahrk-lee-uhn, bahrk-lee-] 
| 1. | pertaining or relating to George Berkeley or his philosophy. |
| 2. | an advocate of the philosophy of George Berkeley, esp. its denial of the existence of a material world. |
| Berke·le·ian·ism (bärk'lē-ə-nĭz'əm, bûr'-) n. George Berkeley's philosophy of subjective idealism, which holds that material objects have no independent being but exist only as concepts in God's mind and as perceptions of those concepts in other minds. Berke'le·ian adj. & n. |