Berkeley says that "The ideas imprinted on the Senses by the Author of nature are called perceptions; and those excited in the imagination being less regular, vivid, and constant, are more properly termed visions or images of things, which they copy and represent."

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Berkeley actually argues that all ideas are derived from the senses and that what we perceive are not direct representations of the external world but rather ideas or perceptions in our minds. He does not make a distinction between perceptions as ideas imprinted on the senses by the Author of nature and visions or images as less regular, vivid, and constant; instead, he posits that all our knowledge comes from perceptions or ideas perceived by the mind.

Berkeley Says That "The Ideas Imprinted on the Senses by the Author