PHIL 100W Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Definite Description, Sense Data, Michelle Obama
30 Mar 2017
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5 passages who, why its important blah blah. Thus we may assume that there is a physical space in which physical objects have spatial relations corresponding to those which the corresponding sense-data have in our private spaces. It is this physical space which is dealt with in geometry and assumed in physics and astronomy. (31) It does not follow that the physical object that caused this sense-datum is round and red. We can know the properties of the relations required to preserve the correspondence with sense-data. But we cannot know the nature of the terms between which the relations hold. (32) Reality, for russell, grounds sensory appearances, and sensory appearances stand in a relation of structural correspondence to physical objects. But the nature of sensory appearance gives us no insight whatsoever into the nature of physical objects: this view, in one form or another, is found in descartes, leibniz and kant (and others, too)
