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  • Essay / Locke Vs. Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge

    His conclusion is that sensible ideas, being so remarkably and reliably coordinated, must be the product of nothing other than an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God or spirit infinity. Sensations are therefore created by God's will and conform to what he calls the "laws of nature", which gives us the ability to make predictions and find correlations between these ideas (36; sec. 30). . Berkeley further develops the character of sense ideas, reassuring the reader that they contain a greater reality than the ideas of the imagination and that they should be considered "real things." Ideas of the latter variety are akin to “images of things” or simple imitations of real things. Neither category of ideas can exist without being perceived, but nevertheless imagination is under the power of human will and sensation under that of God. (37; sec..