PHIL 200 Chapter : Sense Data
22 Apr 2012
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Sense data: what we perceive may be different than another persons. Instead of thinking about the object, we isolate the visual experience. Most basic elements/building blocks of our visual experience. Visual sense data: pixel on the screen, a mosaic of colours. Introduces the distinction to avoid confusion physical object vs sense data (the table is brown) Confusion because there"s no proof that the table actually is brown in reality. Appearance (doesn"t mean illusion, as it does for plato) sense data (only thing that we know for sure) thing you immediately experience. We can assume there aren"t any objects at all out of consciousness. Thinks descartes isn"t critical enough in to cogital self can change from moment to moment (i think, therefore i am) When you"re getting sense data, it"s very clear. You don"t have an experience in yourself as you do with sense data.
