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| Sense Data Theory: The sense data theory holds that when we perceive an object, we are directly aware of a mental representation of the object called a sense datum. Sense data are supposed to be private and subjective, and they are not identical to the objects that they represent. See also Perception, Knowledge, Experience, Seeing, Qualia, Qualities, World/Thinking, Stimuli, Proximal theory, Distal theory._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Wilfrid Sellars on Sense Data Theory - Dictionary of Arguments
I XII Sense data/Sellars: sense data cannot be candidates for the foundation of a justification practice. Problem to make them a foundation for justification: the sense data of the empiricists are single objects, but only with respect to facts one can speak of a knowledge. >Knowledge, >Knowledge/Sellars, >Facts, >Facts/Sellars, >Observation sentences. Knowledge: "has the form "this and that is so and so." Known is something about a single object, but not a single object itself. Sense-data theory: is faced with the choice: a) either sense data are individual objects, then the perception of sense data would be no knowledge. b) or the theorist declares the feeling of sense data to a form of knowledge, but then one must admit that there are not individual objects, but facts that are known. >Generality, >Generalization, >cf. >Generality condition/Evans. I XXXVII Sense data/Broad/tradition: internal objects, immediately conscious. SellarsVs: no objects, only causal consequences. N.B.: a red sensation can also occur when the object only appears to be red. >Sensation/Sellars. I 15 Sense data/Sellars: can be used as a code, but not as an analysis or explanation for anything. I 37 Sense-data theory: basic problem of how something can appear, without it being so and without it being perceived. >Appearance, >Perception. I 47 SellarsVsSense Data: it is about public physical objects, not about private objects._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Sellars I Wilfrid Sellars The Myth of the Given: Three Lectures on the Philosophy of Mind, University of London 1956 in: H. Feigl/M. Scriven (eds.) Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 1956 German Edition: Der Empirismus und die Philosophie des Geistes Paderborn 1999 Sellars II Wilfred Sellars Science, Perception, and Reality, London 1963 In Wahrheitstheorien, Gunnar Skirbekk, Frankfurt/M. 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19