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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Berkeley explicitly exempts minds from esse est percipi; minds are substances that perceive ideas, not ideas themselves. The principle targets only objects.
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    • 2.Mental substance's self-awareness provides direct knowledge unavailable for material objects. I know my mind through immediate introspection, not inference alone.
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    • 3.God's eternal perception of all minds solves the persistence problem: finite minds endure because God constantly perceives them, avoiding the dilemma.
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    • 1.Berkeley's esse est percipi principle applies universally: if material objects exist only as ideas in minds, mental substances face identical scrutiny.
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    • 2.Minds cannot be directly perceived as objects; they're inferred. This inference lacks the same empirical grounding Berkeley demands for knowledge.
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    • 3.Berkeley's system requires minds to persist when unperceived by other minds, yet this violates his core principle that unperceived things don't exist.
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