PHILOS 122 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fokker E.Ii
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Russell"s perceptual skeptical argument: we have ordinary beliefs about tables (8, table looks oblong, brown and shiny, smooth and cool and hard, and gives a certain sound. b. i. But the table isn"t really of the same color all over. The distribution of colors of the table changes with movement. (8) b. i. 1. No reason to regard any one color as more the color of the table than any other (9) b. i. 2. Color depends on table and spectator and way the light falls - not inherent to the table (9) b. ii. No 2 people see exactly the same table, for they cannot share the same. Pov (8: thus the real table is not the same as what we immediately experience. It is not immediately known to us at all. Thus it is an inference (11): raises two questions d. i. d. ii. If so, what sort of object can it be: sense-data refers to what is immediately given in sensation.
