So what do you all think, read the first two sections (An ambiguity in Sense Datum Theories & Another Language?) by next sunday? — csalisbury
Can someone tell me what the heck a "carrier of slabs" is????????
Facts are particulars. Re his examples of facts: (i) something's being thus-and-so, and (ii) something's standing in a certain relation to something else, those are both examples of particulars on my view.
Huh, how would you define 'particular' (noun)? — csalisbury
Not sure I understand what you are referring to in regard to what he says. — Cavacava
. . . according to sense-datum theorists, it is particulars that are sensed. For what is known even in non-inferential knowledge, is facts rather than particulars, items of the form something's being thus-and-so or something's standing in a certain relation to something else . . . The sense-datum theorist, it would seem, must choose between saying . . . Sensing is a form of knowing. It is facts rather than particulars which are sensed. — Wilfrid Sellars
How do you conceive of sense datum? — Cavacava
Sense data are the alleged mind-dependent objects that we are directly aware of in perception, and that have we are directly aware of in perception, and that have exactly the properties they appear to have. For instance, sense data theorists say that, upon viewing a tomato in normal conditions, one forms an image of the tomato in one's mind. This image is red and round. The mental image is an example of a 'sense datum.' Many philosophers have rejected the notion of sense data, either because they believe that perception gives us direct awareness of physical phenomena, rather than mere mental images . . . — SEP
But so you consider facts to be spatiotemporal entities? — csalisbury
Oh, ok, you probably won't get much from this paper then — csalisbury
What I'm asking is: Do you understand why people would think that? — csalisbury
I don't you think you actually do understand the thought behind it. — csalisbury
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