Philosophy A-Level
Support for indirect realism
What Support for indirect realism means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The conclusion that the immediate object of perception is mind-dependent supports the view that what we are immediately aware of is a sense-datum or appearance, not the external object.
Topics that use Support for 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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