Berkeley says a critic might agree that ideas only exist in the mind, but the critic might say they are “copies or resemblances” of objects that exist outside the mind. Berkeley “answers” this...

Berkeley says a critic might agree that ideas only exist in the mind, but the critic might say they are “copies or resemblances” of objects that exist outside the mind. Berkeley “answers” this objection by saying “an idea can be like nothing but [another] idea.” In other words ideas can only be “copies or resemblances” of other ideas. Do you think Berkeley has really “answered” his critic? Think about this: Would you say that a painting can only be a “copy or resemblance” of another painting? Or could a photograph only be a “copy or resemblance” of another photograph? What do you think is the mistake that Berkeley is making in his “answer”?