3.1.2 Perception as a source of knowledge - 5 markers

Question 1

The argument that it leads to scepticism about the existence of mind-independent objects

Question 2

Responses, including: Locke’s argument from involuntary nature of our experience

Question 3

Responses, including: the argument from the coherence of various kinds of experience, as developed by Locke and Catharine Trotter Cockburn

Question 4

Responses, including: Bertrand Russell’s response that the external world is the ‘best hypothesis’.

Question 5

The argument from George Berkeley that we cannot know the nature of mind-independent object because mind-dependent idea cannot be like mind-independent objects.