Questions tagged [sense-data]
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What is the difference between Qualia theory, Sense-datum theory and Representationalism?
According to survey from 2020 Representationalism has the most supporters, Qualia theory not so much and Sense-datum has only 5%. All of these theories can be classified as Indirect realism as far as I know.
What is the difference between all of…
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‘Libet’s delay’ and the philosophy of mind and free will
If you are not familiar with Libet delay and the neuroscience of free will, you can read it below. It seems philosophers are interested in the topic since it relates to the philosophical notions of qualia and sense-data in the philosophy of mind. My…
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Did Kant ever explain why “senses do not err” when it comes to optical illusions?
Still less may we take appearance and illusion for one and the same. For truth and illusion are not in the object, insofar as it is intuited, but in the judgment about it insofar as it is thought. Thus it is correctly said that the senses do not…
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Does sensory information exist, and do philosophers have a name for it?
Are there really sensory sensations such as sight, hearing, tactile sensations, smell, taste, and umami? In other words, are those sensations or sense-data real, and if they are not real physically, are they "real" in some other way?
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Math, semantic meaning, and human senses as ungrounded
(1) Let's say I understand how one section of math behaves, maybe the natural numbers, and all of math is connected such that any one section of math can be interchanged for any other (my naive, idealized take on the Langlands Program). If I feel…
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How did Wittgenstein "cure" Anscombe of phenomenalism?
In "Collected Philosophical Papers Volume 2: Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind", Elizabeth Anscombe wrote the following:
I always hated phenomenalism and felt trapped by it. I couldn’t see my
way out of it but I didn’t believe it. It was no…
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