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    Berkeley's idealism leads to realism about minds (human and divine), not realism about material substance.

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    • 1.Under Berkeley's idealism, things are ideas perceived by the mind of God.
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    • 2.This framework affirms the reality of minds as active perceiving principles.
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    • 3.Material substance, as an unperceived substratum, plays no role in this framework.
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    • 1.Berkeley's God functions as an unobservable substratum guaranteeing the continuity of objects, structurally mirroring the material substance he rejects.
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    • 2.A metaphysical posit that does the same explanatory work as material substance inherits the same epistemological liabilities Berkeley leveled against Locke.
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    • 3.Therefore Berkeley's 'realism about minds' smuggles back a form of the unperceived substratum problem rather than eliminating it.
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    • 1.Hume argued that Berkeley's own empiricist principles, applied consistently, dissolve the notion of mind or self into bundles of perceptions with no persistent active substance.
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    • 2.If Berkeley's epistemological commitments undermine material substance, those same commitments preclude the robust, enduring mental substances his system requires as perceivers.
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    Berkeley’s criticism of Locke’s theory concerning substances is not carried out for its own sake. On the contrary, it is meant to establish what Berkeley thinks to be the unavoidable metaphysical consequences of a position that takes ideas “in the mind” to be the only material for the operations of the mind in its acquisition of knowledge. These metaphysical consequences consist in a thoroughgoing idealism or “immaterialism” with respect to the nature and constitution of things or substances. Be
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    Under Berkeley's idealism, things are ideas perceived by the mind of God.
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