• He also argues that a combination of ideas gives us objects such as apples or stones as some ideas always go together such as the colour and taste of the apple.
• Berkeley then goes on the say that there has to be something to perceive the ideas which he decides to call the mind, spirit, soul or myself he argues that the perceiver perceives by imagining or remembering the ideas.
• Berkeley argues that because things created in the mind by the power of imagination or just thoughts …show more content…
• Here Berkeley goes up against other philosophers namely John Locke stating that there is not a difference between primary and secondary qualities saying they are all ideas in the mind.
• He then goes on to disagree with Locke over the subject of matter saying that there is no such thing because it has no sense meaning that as he has referenced before that it could not be real as we cannot create ideas apart from copying qualities from other ideas which would dispute the existence of matter.
• Berkeley continues on with this argument about matter by starting off with talking about that people who say that while primary qualities can exist without being perceived but also argue secondary qualities can exist without being …show more content…
Surely if it were true that objects only exist when they are being perceived then the plant when I came back to the room would have been in exactly the same condition as when I left it, as it would had just popped back into existence in the same manner ,that I remembered it if it were true that all objects exist within the mind and matter does not exist
• If it is true that to be is to be perceived then surely it means that these objects are constantly popping in and out of existence causing them to not exist most of the time when they are not being