Single Idea 6467

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

Full Idea

No sensibile is ever a datum to two people at once.

Clarification

A 'sensibile' is the singular of 'sensibilia', which seem to be potential sense-data

Gist of Idea

No sensibile is ever a datum to two people at once

Source

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

Book Reference

Russell,Bertrand: 'Mysticism and Logic' [Unwin 1989], p.152


A Reaction

So a loud bang has to broken down into an almost infinite number of sound sensibilia - each one presumably the size of the apperture of a small ear. This is beginning to sound a bit silly.