Which of the following represents Berkeley's response to the claim that our ideas copy material objects that exist apart from being experienced?
A) An idea in the mind is caused by an object outside the mind.
B) Either material objects are perceivable or not. If they are, they are ideas. If they are not, then how can they copy what is totally unlike them?
C) Secondary qualities copy primary, but not the other way around.
D) Copies of ideas exist outside the mind, for example, pictures and paintings.
B
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