PHI 2010 Lecture 5: PHI2010 Week 3 Notes
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Being with our present experiences: see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. Appearance- what things seem to be (page 95) Reality- what things really are (page 95) Sense-data- things that are immediately known to sensation (page 97) Sensation- experience of being immediately aware of sense-data. (page 97) E. g. , sense-data vs sensation: color is a sense-datum, the way we feel when we see the color is the sensation. The best one can do is infer what real table is like from the table as it appears to one experience. We don"t, but we know that the appearance is a sign of some reality (page 97) We don"t know anything other than there is something related to the sense-data that is causing sensations in us. No, because all we can know is sense-data that depend in part on us. The best one can do is infer what the real table is like from the table as it appears to one in experience.
