Single Idea 2782

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory]

Full Idea

An object such as a distant star can have ceased to exist by the moment at which we are directly aware of it.

Gist of Idea

We can be looking at distant stars which no longer actually exist

Source

Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 10.2)

Book Reference

Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.147

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