PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Bertrand Russell
15 Nov 2016
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The real shape is not something we see, but something we infer (judge) from what we see: the candle from descartes. Sense-data things immediately known from sensations (sounds, smells, hardness, properties an item possesses) Sensation the experience of being immediately aware of these things or the awareness of sense data: red is a sense data, not sensation. You don"t have a red sensation but you do have a sensation of seeing red, which is the sense-data. We come to know things by means of the sense data, that which we have sensations of, but tables aren"t sense-data: real tables, if they exists, are physical objects. Berkley"s idealism: physical objects are ideas in the mind of god. His [i. e. , berkley"s] arguments admit of no refutation . Such questions are bewildering, and it is difficult to know that even the strangest hypotheses may not be true.
