Abstract
George Berkeley's philosophy of religion is sometimes interpreted as containing a continuity argument for the existence of God. Berkeley attempts to establish God's existence from the assumption that sensible things may continue to exist even when they are not perceived by finite minds. Since sensible things do not have independent existence in Berkeley's view but exist only as collections or congeries of ideas in the mind, he concludes that some sensible things must exist continuously in the infinite mind of God, at least during those intervals of time when they are not perceived by finite minds and that, therefore, God or a being with infinite mind exists. But in order to support the premise that sensible things continue to exist even when they are not perceived by any finite minds, it appears
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