What failing did the empiricist George Berkeley find with the idea that the proximal stimulus is the messenger that allows us to receive information from the visual world?
A) One's perception of the visual world is also dependent on the distal stimuli.
B) The distal stimuli often offer more information on the visual world than the proximal stimuli do.
C) The retina is a two-dimensional surface and cannot inform us about a three-dimensional world.
D) Both a and b

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Berkeley argued that because the retina is a two-dimensional surface, it cannot directly inform us about the three-dimensional nature of the world. This challenges the idea that the proximal stimulus (the image on the retina) alone can provide a full account of our perception of the visual world.

What Failing Did the Empiricist George Berkeley Find with the Idea