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""The Existence of Matter""


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addressesQuestion Can we know that an external world exists?
addressesQuestion How can common-sense beliefs be philosophically justified?
addressesQuestion What is the relation between sense-data and physical objects?
arguesAgainst radical skepticism about the external world
arguesAgainst subjective idealism
author Bertrand Russell
contrasts appearance with reality
discusses Berkeleyan idealism
discusses arguments against naive realism
discusses arguments for the existence of matter
discusses common-sense belief in physical objects
discusses probabilistic justification of beliefs
discusses representative realism
epistemicMethod analysis of ordinary beliefs
epistemicMethod argument from best explanation of experience
epistemicStance fallibilism about knowledge of the external world
genre philosophy
influences 20th-century discussions of sense-data
influences analytic epistemology of perception
instanceOf book chapter
instanceOf philosophical text
language English
locatedInWork early chapters of "The Problems of Philosophy"
mainTopic appearance and reality distinction
mainTopic existence of a mind-independent material world
mainTopic inference from sense-data to physical objects
mainTopic justification of belief in the external world
mainTopic sense-data
mainTopic skepticism about the external world
partOf The Problems of Philosophy
surface form: "The Problems of Philosophy"
philosophicalIssue nature of perceptual knowledge
philosophicalIssue problem of the external world
philosophicalIssue realism versus idealism
philosophicalTradition analytic philosophy
positionDefended belief in matter is rationally justifiable though not demonstrable with certainty
positionDefended there is a world of physical objects independent of our minds
publicationYearOfContainingWork 1912
relatedTo chapter "Appearance and Reality" in "The Problems of Philosophy"
relatedTo chapter "The Existence of Matter" self-linksurface differs
surface form: chapter "The Nature of Matter" in "The Problems of Philosophy"
subgenre epistemology
subgenre metaphysics
supportsView physical objects are logical constructions out of sense-data
targetAudience general educated readers
targetAudience students of philosophy
usesConcept sense-data as immediate objects of awareness
workContainedIn a popular introduction to philosophy