...description of the ways in which the ideas he is going to ascribe to God differ from human productions. The ideas of sense are more strong, lively, and distinct...excited at random, as those which are the effects 4. Jonathan Bennett, as AC Grayling points out, has unaccountably ignored this part of Berkeley's proof...

...the effects of human wills often are, but in a regular train of series, — the .admirable connection whereof sufficiently testifies the wisdom and benevolence of its author. Now the set rules, or established method* wherein the mind we depend on excites in us the ideas of sense, are called the laws of nature...

...emphasises in the Principles when God is first introduced as the cause of all of our ideas of sense: The ideas of sense are more strong, lively, and distinct...sufficiently testifies the wisdom and benevolence of its Author.'411 But though God is wise and benevolent, His wisdom and benevolence are manifested primarily...

...images of things, which they copy and represent." On the subject of the laws of nature, he declared: "The ideas of sense are more strong, lively, and distinct...imagination; they have likewise a steadiness, order, coherence, and are not excited at random, as those which are the effects of human wills often are,...

...the orderly complexity of perception to divine perfection, goodness and wisdom. To quote Berkeley, The ideas of sense are more strong, lively, and distinct...of human wills often are, but in a regular train or series—the admirable connection whereof sufficiently testifies the wisdom and benevolence of its...

...suggestive point. In the Principles Berkeley speaks more fully of ideas of sense than he does elsewhere: The ideas of sense are more strong, lively, and distinct than those of the imagination; they likewise have a steadiness, order, and coherence, and are not excited at random, as those which are...

...attempts to establish a criterion of reality by distinguishing between ideas of sense and of imagination. The ideas of sense are more strong, lively, and distinct than those of the imagination; and they also have greater order, coherence, and regularity.34 This is a two-fold criterion in terms...

...Ibid., 50. 3. Ibid., 51. 4. Ibid., 9. 5. Compare Berkeley, The Principles of Human Knowledge, sec. 30: "The ideas of Sense are more strong, lively, and distinct...those which are the effects of human wills often are." Also, from Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, 225-226: "The ideas formed by the imagination...

...really existing things, he says, exhibit constancy, steadiness, order, and coherence. They constitute a "regular train or series, the admirable connexion...testifies the wisdom and benevolence of its Author" (Principles 30). This makes every existence claim a hostage to fortune. If I see the table in my study...

...short of showing that the other mind is God. Berkeley makes this transition in the very next sentence: The ideas of sense are more strong, lively, and distinct...testifies the wisdom and benevolence of its Author. (PHK 30) So Berkeley's argument has two stages. The first is a demonstrative proof that there must...