Which expresses Berkeley's thought on a 'substratum'

A. Locke is wrong to think that properties inhere in tiny 'corpuscules' or 'atoms'

 

B. All knowledge and opinion must be built out of ideas of things plus ideas of their properties

   
C. An empricist is not entitled to the idea of a bearer of properties that does not itself have any properties D. Descartes' view that there are no individual material things but instead just one single material substance with the appearance of independent material things occurring as votices in the one substance is broadly correct    
       

Berkeley appears to think that all knowledge and opinion must be built out of ideas of properties, so B. is wrong when it includes ideas of things.

Berkeley is opposed to the idea that there is material substance at all, so D is not good.

Berkeley appears to say C. so C is the safest answer I think.

This is a confusion of which I don't Berkeley is guilty. For clarification, go back to the main body of the text!

 

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