Philosophy A-Level
Sense-data
What Sense-data means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Mind-dependent objects that are the immediate objects of perception and are caused by and represent mind-independent objects.
Mind-dependent things that stand between you and the object, which indirect realism says are immediately perceived.
Something mind-dependent that we are directly aware of in perception, rather than the mind-independent object.
Topics that use Sense-data
- 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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