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.
Gist of Idea
Science condemns sense-data and accepts matter, but a logical construction must link them
Source
Bertrand Russell (Our Knowledge of the External World [1914], 4)
Book Reference
Russell,Bertrand: 'Our Knowledge of the External World' [Routledge 1993], p.106
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.