Single Idea 6480

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

Full Idea

I understand sense-data as having no intrinsic intentionality; that is, though it may suggest, by habit, things beyond it, in itself it possesses only sensible qualities which do not refer beyond themselves.

Gist of Idea

Sense-data do not have any intrinsic intentionality

Source

Howard Robinson (Perception [1994], 1.1)

Book Reference

Robinson,Howard: 'Perception' [Routledge 2001], p.2


A Reaction

This seems right, as the whole point of proposing sense-data was as something neutral between realism and anti-realism