Indirect realism
What Indirect realism means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The immediate objects of perception are mind-dependent objects that are caused by and represent mind-independent objects.
The view that perception involves something mind-dependent standing between you and the object.
Topics that use Indirect realism
- Perception as a source of knowledge (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Alleged inference
- Argument from hallucination
- Argument from illusion
- Best explanation reasoning
- Direct realism
- Disjunctivism
- Dreams versus waking experience
- Hallucination
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