Idealism in its philosophical sense, is the view that mind and spiritual values are fundamental in the world as a whole. Idealism came to be used as a philosophical term in Germany during the eighteenth century. This type of philosophy opposed the Empirisistic views of such philosopher’s as David Hume, by stating that there are no such things as structural simples, atomisms or external relationships. Idealists argued that the world and our reality is …showed first 75 words of 1777 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1777 total…that a statement cannot properly be called true unless it fits into the one comprehensive account of the universe or reality, which itself forms a coherent system. In either case, no statement can be known to be true until it is known to cohere with every other statement of the system; where the system consists of all true statements, such knowledge is unattainable. “Truth” said Bradley, “must exhibit the mark of expansion and all inclusiveness.”