Beginning of Essay
The was a time of Empiricism and of Materialism, which brought out philosophers like John Locke and George Berkeley as well as authors like Swift and Pope. These philosophers and authors belong to the because of their use of anti-emotional thought and the idea o ....

Middle of Essay
.... is not an essence but an idea of the mind in which, that idea is a belief that can only be proven by the 5 senses. The Idea of Occam's Razor was another idea that became main stream during the . Occam's Razor is an idea that states "when you have 2 competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the one that is simpler is better". A man by the name of Jonathan Swift used this idea/theory to write a satirical essay called "A Modest Proposal". In "A Modest Proposal" Swift has a simple idea to a big problem that is overpopulation in Ireland. Due to the theory of Occam's Razor, Swift proposes a very good/simple idea that is to just kill and ....