Full Idea
Sense-data are purely physical, and all that is mental in connection with them is our awareness of them.
Gist of Idea
Sense-data are purely physical
Source
Bertrand Russell (The Ultimate Constituents of Matter [1915], p.138)
Book Reference
Russell,Bertrand: 'Mysticism and Logic' [Unwin 1989], p.138
A Reaction
Once this account of sense-data becomes fully clear, it also becomes apparent what a dualist theory it is. The mind is a cinema, I am the audience, and sense-data are the screen. There has to be a big logical gap between viewer and screen.