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Ideas for Hermarchus, Godfrey Vesey and Michael Williams

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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory

3579	Sense data avoid the danger of misrepresenting the world [Williams,M]
	Full Idea: The point of insisting on the absolute immediacy of sense data is that representation always seems to involve the possibility of misrepresentation.
	From: Michael Williams (Problems of Knowledge [2001], Ch. 8)

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / b. Nature of sense-data

6457	Sensations are mental, but sense-data could be mind-independent [Vesey]
	Full Idea: Whereas a sensation is by definition mental, a sense-datum might be mind-independent.
	From: Godfrey Vesey (Collins Dictionary of Philosophy [1990], p.266)
	A reaction: This seems to be what Russell is getting at in 1912, as he clearly separates sense-data from sensations. Discussions of sense-data always assume they are mental, which may make them redundant - but so might making them physical.

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems

3581	Sense data can't give us knowledge if they are non-propositional [Williams,M]
	Full Idea: Acquaintance with sense data is supposed to be a form of non-propositional knowledge, but how can something be non-propositional and yet knowledge?
	From: Michael Williams (Problems of Knowledge [2001], Ch. 8)