Collier, Arthur, an English metaphysician, born in Wilts; studied Descartes and Malebranche, and who, anticipating Berkeley, published a “Demonstration of the Non-Existence and the Impossibility of an External World” (1680-1732). See Berkeley.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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