Arthur Collier

Arthur Collier (born Oct. 12, 1680, Langford Magna, Wiltshire, Eng.—died September 1732) was an idealist philosopher and theologian remembered for his concept of human knowledge. Collier was born at the rectory of Langford Magna. Educated at Pembroke and Balliol colleges, Oxford, he became rector at Langford Magna in 1704. Like the idealist thinker George Berkeley, Collier denied that an external world exists independent of that conceptualized by a mind. In his major work, Clavis Universalis...