According to Berkeley, "The ideas imprinted on the Senses by the Author of nature are called __________; and those excited in the imagination being less regular, vivid, and constant, are more properly termed __________."

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Berkeley's philosophy posits that all ideas come from sensory experience. He distinguishes between ideas imprinted on the senses by the Author of nature, which he calls "real things," and those produced by the imagination, which are less vivid and constant, referring to them as "ideas." This distinction is central to his immaterialist philosophy, which asserts that only minds and their ideas exist.

According to Berkeley, "The Ideas Imprinted on the Senses by the Author