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A. There is no such problem - things actually don't exist when people are not perceiving them |
B. God created enduring objects and would not allow them to pass in and out of existence all the time | ||
| C. What you mean when you say objects exist even when noone is looking at them is that they would be perceived in certain different circumstances, and anyway God is always perceiving them | D. Enduring objects are minds | ||
C. seems to me the best answer - ie Berkeley appears to say both these things, in spite of them not being terribly comfortable together.
A. is tempting but wrong really - Berkeley does seem to think that things exist as ideas in the mind of God even when people are not perceiving them.
B. misses the point, and Berkeley doesn't (ie he acknowledges the question and tries to address it).
D. seems to imply that eg tables are minds, whereas Berkeley's view is that a table is an idea in a mind.
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