In PKD's Time Out of Joint, Berkeley gets mentioned a couple of times.
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> Berkeley was certainly an influence on Beckett. As for PKD his stated
> philosophical influences include his combination of the pre-Socratics
> Parmenides and Heraclitus, see
> http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm
> "The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only
> things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-
> Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes.
> If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is
> real. There is a fascinating next step to this line of thinking:
> Parmenides could never have existed because he grew old and died and
> disappeared, so, according to his own philosophy, he did not exist.
> And
> Heraclitus may have been right—let's not forget that; so if Heraclitus
> was right, then Parmenides did exist, and therefore, according to
> Heraclitus' philosophy, perhaps Parmenides was right, since Parmenides
> fulfilled the conditions, the criteria, by which Heraclitus judged
> things real."
> Ben
>
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