Philosophy A-Level
Sense datum
What Sense datum means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Something mind-dependent that is directly experienced, which the argument claims we are directly aware of in both veridical perception and hallucination.
What we are directly aware of in illusion, which is not the real object.
Topics that use Sense datum
- 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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