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The name for this proposed event, which is discussed in works like "On The Materialist Dialectic" and "Lenin and Philosophy," is asserted by one author to have originated in the works of Gaston Bachelard. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this proposed event. This proposed event, which is compared to those of Thales in mathematics and Galileo in physics, occurred when "Marx [founded] the science of history where there were previously only philosophies of history."
ANSWER: Marx' epistemological break [or Marx' epistemological rupture; or the epistemological break in history or the epistemological rupture in history; reject synonyms]
[10m] Althusser's "Lenin and Philosophy" is a study of Lenin's attack on this physicist and their Otzovist followers. This Austrian anti-atomist influenced Einstein with their arguments against absolute motion.
ANSWER: Ernst Mach
[10e] Lenin argued that "philosophy has no real history" in asserting that Mach "merely repeats" this thinker. This thinker supported their "subjective idealism" with the maxim "to be is to be perceived."
ANSWER: George Berkeley
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