BERKELEY'S IDEALISM

[B71] By adopting a transcendental realist standpoint (instead of transcendental idealism and empirical realism), Berkeley degraded appearances to mere illusions. [B274] Berkeley's "dogmatic idealism" is opposed to Descartes' "problematic idealism" both adopt transcendental realism, and the former asserts that transcendentally real objects are impossible while the latter asserts that we can have no knowledge of objects. According to Kant's transcendental idealism and empirical realism, appearances are empirically real objects.