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    It is not the case that Berkeley's idealism demonstrates that objects of perception are mind-dependent bundles of ideas, existing only within the perceiving mind.

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    • 1.Objects persist and exhibit stable causal regularities even when no human perceives them, suggesting independence from individual minds.
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    • 2.If objects exist only in perceiving minds, idealism cannot explain inter-subjective agreement or successful predictions about unobserved phenomena.
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    • 3.Berkeley's appeal to God's infinite mind to preserve unperceived objects reintroduces the external reality problem rather than solving it.
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    • 1.We have no direct access to mind-independent objects; all experience is mediated through perception and mental representation.
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    • 2.The properties we perceive (color, taste, texture) vary with observer conditions, suggesting they exist relationally in minds, not absolutely.
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    • 3.Positing unperceived matter beyond ideas multiplies entities unnecessarily when perception fully explains our empirical evidence.
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