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Single Idea 6460

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / c. Unperceived sense-data]

Full Idea

I shall give the name 'sensibilia' to those objects which have the same metaphysical and physical status as sense-data without necessarily being data to any mind.

Gist of Idea

'Sensibilia' are identical to sense-data, without actually being data for any mind

Source

Bertrand Russell (The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics [1914], §III)

Book Reference

Russell,Bertrand: 'Mysticism and Logic' [Unwin 1989], p.143


A Reaction

This is his response to the problem of whether sense-data can exist independently of experience, which was unclear in 1912. Presumably sensibilia are objects which are possible sources of experience, but that seems to cover most objects.