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    It is not the case that Berkeley's idealism demonstrates that spatial extension is not a necessary condition for exemplifying universal properties, since mental particulars instantiate redness, roundness, and other forms without occupying physical space.

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    • 1.Mental particulars arguably have spatiotemporal structure within phenomenal space, so Berkeley hasn't eliminated spatial extension entirely.
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    • 2.Redness in experience differs fundamentally from redness-as-universal; one is qualitative, the other structural—conflating them begs the question.
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    • 3.Berkeley must explain how non-spatial minds consistently instantiate properties requiring structural organization that space naturally provides.
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    • 1.Mental images and sensations genuinely possess phenomenal properties like redness without occupying Cartesian physical space.
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    • 2.Universal properties are abstract; their instantiation needn't require spatial location, only appropriate instantiating particulars.
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    • 3.Berkeley's idealism successfully explains how minds grasp universals directly without mediating physical extension between mind and property.
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