Perception Vocab. Flashcards
Anirealist
You think is mind dependent. Eg material objects exist only for our minds. Berkeley to be is to be perceived.
Realism
Realists believe it exists independently of our minds. Eg of realists positions: naive direct realism and indirect realism they believe phisical objects are real, ind of our minds.
Naïve direct realism
Sense view of how perception works. Physical objects have an independent existence in space, they follow the laws of physics and posses certain properties such as shape, size, etc.
Sense data
what one is directly aware of in perception. The subjective elements which constitute experience. For eg when perceiving a bannana i am actually sense is a collection of sense data
Idealism
Antirealist theory of perception. View that matter doesnt exist independently of the mind and that all that exist are minds and ideas. Objects that are not being perceived by any creatire are being perceived in the mind of God.
Objects according to idealist
Collections of sensations appearing to the mind. Sense data
Indirect realism
The view immediatw objects of preception are sense data or representations of the physocal world, that is only indirectly perceived by this representations
Perception
Process by which we become aware of physical objects including our own body.
Representative realism
Theory of perception which claims sense organs causong us to experience sensations. Tje sensations are akin to pictures which represent the objects which cause them.
Solipsism
The view that all that can be known to exist is my OWN MIND. Sceptical trap.