PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hylas, House Dust Mite, Mental Property
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Letters and paper when you read a newspaper. As a result of reasoning, you can understand that wawa went into a sinkhole, but right now neither wawa nor the sinkhole are sensible objects. You don"t immediately perceive the causes of what you immediately perceive. One way of mediately perceiving something is having it be the cause of what you immediately perceive. Also, reason allows you to conclude mediate perceptions. Immediate perception is reliable, mediate perception is fallible. Immediately perceive things like color, shape, taste, and their combinations. Means that its current existence does not depend on being perceived. You"re going to end up being a skeptic with that view, according to philonious. You only immediately perceive the sensation of intense heat which is also the sensation of pain. Pain only exists in the mind, so if intense heat and pain are the same thing, the intense heat also cannot exist without a mind.
