Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Bertrand Russell, Johann Gottfried Herder and Albert Casullo
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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / a. Naïve realism
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Naïve realism leads to physics, but physics then shows that naïve realism is false [Russell]
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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / b. Direct realism
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I assume we perceive the actual objects, and not their 'presentations' [Russell]
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'Acquaintance' is direct awareness, without inferences or judgements [Russell]
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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / c. Representative realism
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Russell (1912) said phenomena only resemble reality in abstract structure [Russell, by Robinson,H]
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There is no reason to think that objects have colours [Russell]
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Science condemns sense-data and accepts matter, but a logical construction must link them [Russell]
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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism
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Where possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities [Russell]
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Russell rejected phenomenalism because it couldn't account for causal relations [Russell, by Grayling]
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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism
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'Idealism' says that everything which exists is in some sense mental [Russell]
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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 4. Solipsism
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It is not illogical to think that only myself and my mental events exist [Russell]
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