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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / c. Representative realism

21580	Science condemns sense-data and accepts matter, but a logical construction must link them [Russell]
	Full Idea: Men of science condemn immediate data as 'merely subjective', while maintaining the truths of physics from those data. ...The only justification possible for this must be one which exhibits matter as a logical construction from sense-data.
	From: Bertrand Russell (Our Knowledge of the External World [1914], 4)
	A reaction: Since we blatantly aren't doing logic when we stare out of the window, this aspires to finding something like the 'logical form' of perception.