Indirect Realism

Question 1

What is our sense-data?

Answer 1

Mind-dependant

Question 2

What are sense-data caused by and represent?

Answer 2

Physical objects

Question 3

How do we perceive sense-data?

Answer 3

Directly

Question 4

How do we perceive physical objects?

Answer 4

Indirectly

Question 5

Example of perceptual variation?

Answer 5

Desk remains rectangular, even as the way it looks to me changes as I look at it from different angles.

Question 6

What does this mean we’re immediately aware of in perception

Answer 6

It isnt exactly the same as what exists independently of our minds

Question 7

What does the argument from perceptual variation shows?

Answer 7

We do not perceive physical objects directly.

Question 8

What shows that we don’t know that physical objects exist?

Answer 8

The only access we have to them is through our sense-data.

Question 9

What is a bad response to scepticism?

Answer 9

Other people see the same thing

Question 10

How does scepticism object to the response?

Answer 10

How can we know other people exist.

Question 11

Claim that is true or false

Answer 11

Physical object exist or do not exist

Question 12

Treat the claim as?

Answer 12

A hypothesis

Question 13

Better hypothesis?

Answer 13

Physical objects exist and cause my sense data.

Question 14

Can’t control?

Answer 14

Perceptual experiences

Question 15

Different sense do what?

Answer 15

Confirm the same information

Question 16

Indirect Realism

Answer 16

Infer the existence of physical objects

Question 17

Sense-data

Answer 17

How we perceive physical objects.

Question 18

Not a hypothesis

Answer 18

Existence of physical objects

Question 19

Systematic correlations

Answer 19

What we experience and the nature of the world

Question 20

Doesn’t tell us

Answer 20

What underlies the correlation

Question 21

Russell’s distinction

Answer 21

Physical space and apparent space

Question 22

Shape

Answer 22

Apparent space

Question 23

Physical space causes our sense-data

Answer 23

We exist in physical space

Question 24

Something that appears further

Answer 24

Longer to walk through physical space to get there.

Question 25

All we can know about physical space

Answer 25

What secures this correspondence.

Question 26

Can’t know space or distance

Answer 26

In themselves

Question 27

2 objects have the same colour

Answer 27

2 objects have something in common

Question 28

Extend point

Answer 28

All properties of an objects.

Question 29

Physical objects secure relations of

Answer 29

Similarity and difference.