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Single Idea 2722

[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism ]

Full Idea

Where the sense-datum theory is an indirect realism, phenomenalism is a direct irrealism.

Gist of Idea

Sense-data theory is indirect realism, but phenomenalism is direct irrealism

Source

Robert Audi (Epistemology: contemporary introduction [1998], I p.43)

Book Ref

Audi,Robert: 'Epistemology: a contemporary introduction' [Routledge 1998], p.43