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Ideas for Reiss,J/Spreger,J, Cover,J/O'Leary-Hawthorne,J and A.J. Ayer

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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism
Logical positivists could never give the sense-data equivalent of 'there is a table next door' [Robinson,H on Ayer]
Material things are constructions from actual and possible occurrences of sense-contents [Ayer]
No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]
Modern phenomenalism holds that objects are logical constructions out of sense-data [Ayer]