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Single Idea 6455
[filed under theme 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory
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Full Idea
One possibility is that talk of sense-data is a mere linguistic convenience, providing a noun for talking about appearances, as when seeing a red object in sodium light (when it looks grey).
Gist of Idea
Maybe 'sense-data' just help us to talk about unusual perceptual situations
Source
A.R. Lacey (A Dictionary of Philosophy [1976], p.196)
Book Ref
Lacey,A.R.: 'A Dictionary of Philosophy' [RKP 1976], p.196
A Reaction
The term seems to have been coined to deal with situations where there is a gap between appearance and presumed reality, as in illusions. Maybe illusions prove the existence of sense-data, rather than it being a 'convenient' term.
The
23 ideas
with the same theme
[theory that sense-data actually exist]:
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The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them
[Hobbes]
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2356
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Appearance and reality can be separated by mirrors and echoes
[Hobbes]
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4164
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Direct feeling of the senses are merely data; perception of the world comes with understanding causes
[Schopenhauer]
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6417
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In 1921 Russell abandoned sense-data, and the gap between sensation and object
[Russell, by Grayling]
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6474
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Seeing is not in itself knowledge, but is separate from what is seen, such as a patch of colour
[Russell]
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6415
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After 1912, Russell said sense-data are last in analysis, not first in experience
[Russell, by Grayling]
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5358
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'Sense-data' are what are immediately known in sensation, such as colours or roughnesses
[Russell]
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We live in sense-data, but talk about physical objects
[Wittgenstein]
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6524
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Positivists prefer sense-data to objects, because the vocabulary covers both illusions and perceptions
[Ayer, by Robinson,H]
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2615
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The concept of sense-data allows us to discuss appearances without worrying about reality
[Ayer]
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6455
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Maybe 'sense-data' just help us to talk about unusual perceptual situations
[Lacey]
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6456
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Sense-data are neutral uninterpreted experiences, separated from objects and judgements
[Angeles]
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2782
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We can be looking at distant stars which no longer actually exist
[Dancy,J]
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6451
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Visual sense data are an inner picture show which represents the world
[Blackburn]
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3579
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Sense data avoid the danger of misrepresenting the world
[Williams,M]
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2719
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Sense data imply representative realism, possibly only representing primary qualities
[Audi,R]
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2720
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Sense-data (and the rival 'adverbial' theory) are to explain illusions and hallucinations
[Audi,R]
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6508
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Sense-data leads to either representative realism or phenomenalism or idealism
[Robinson,H]
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4104
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One can taste that the wine is sour, and one can also taste the sourness of the wine
[Crane]
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4105
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The traditional supports for the sense datum theory were seeing double and specks before one's eyes
[Crane]
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2422
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The structure of the retina has already simplified the colour information which hits it
[Chalmers]
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6452
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'Sense-data' arrived in 1910, but it denotes ideas in Locke, Berkeley and Hume
[Mautner]
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Sense-data have an epistemological purpose (foundations) and a metaphysical purpose (explanation)
[Maund]
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