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The Problems of Philosophy|Bertrand Russell

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It will help us in considering these questions to have a few simple terms of which the meaning is definite and clear. Let us give the name of 'sense-data' to the things that are immediately known in sensation: such things as colours, sounds, smells, hardnesses, roughnesses, and so on. We shall give the name 'sensation' to the experience of being immediately aware of these things. Thus, whenever we see a colour, we have a sensation of the colour, but the colour itself is a sense-datum, not a sensation. The colour is that of which we are immediately aware, and the awareness itself is the sensation. It is plain that if we are to know anything about the table, it must be by means of the sense-data-brown colour, oblong shape, smoothness, etc.-which we associate with the table; but, for the reasons which have been given, we cannot say that the table is the sense-data, or even that the sense-data are directly properties of the table. Thus a problem arises as to the relation of the sense-data to the real table, supposing there is such a thing. The real table, if it exists, we will call a 'physical object'. Thus we have to consider the relation of sense-data to physical objects.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781544713526
  • ISBN-10: 1544713525
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: March 2017
  • Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.23 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.35 pounds
  • Page Count: 112

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