... exist since they are no longer being thought of?Berkley argues that such objects still exist because the mind of God is always perceiving them. Unlike the materialists' view, theimmaterialist puts God at the center of his views. In truth, God is the "omnipresent external mind which knows and comprehends all things, and exhibits them to our view in such a manner and according to such rules as He Himself has ... In summary, the human mind has important limits which can easily be observed.On the contrary, the infinite mind of God is limitless in its ability to perceive ideas. In God's mind...

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... shows that matter can be doubted and that if there are any things outside of our minds they cannot be the immediate objects of our sensations. Berkley began by defining matter as something which we think of as occupying space as radically incapable of any sort of thought or consciousness. He goes on to state the in his rejecting the existence of matter he is not denying sense data ... this something cannot be extremely different in nature from what we see, and cannot be independent of seeing altogether, though it must be independent of our seeing. He is thus lead to the belief that the ...

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