Showing posts with label Foundationalism. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 17, 2014

Close Your Eyes and See Sense Data?

I will not positively insist that we “see” anything when we close our eyes in a not bright room. If you prefer to say that we have a “visual sensations” or something of the sort, that is fine with me. There is at least something going on that permits us to make such descriptions as “there was a greenish blob that drifted down and left above a small, yellowish comma shaped patch.” Nowadays these experiences, or perhaps more accurately the content of these experiences, are called, by philosophers, “qualia.” Russell, G.E. Moore and others in the early 20th century would have called them “sense data.”