chapter "On Our Knowledge of the External World"
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The chapter "On Our Knowledge of the External World" is a philosophical discussion, within Bertrand Russell’s work The Problems of Philosophy, that examines how and to what extent we can justify beliefs about a reality beyond our immediate experiences.
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book chapter
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philosophical text → |
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grounds for believing in physical objects
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limits of human knowledge → the possibility of error in perception → the role of experience in knowledge → |
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clarify the basis of our belief in an external world
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distinguish what can be known with certainty from what is probable → |
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Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
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the possibility that the external world might not exist as commonly supposed
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the role of inference in moving from sense-data to physical objects → |
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introductory text in epistemology courses
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how beliefs about a reality beyond immediate experience can be justified
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the distinction between appearance and reality → the problem of the existence of an external world → the relation between sense-data and physical objects → |
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philosophy
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certainty and doubt
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nature of physical reality → problem of other minds → realism vs idealism → |
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British empiricism
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scientific method → |
| mainTopic |
appearance and reality
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epistemology → external world → inductive reasoning → inference to physical objects → justification of belief → knowledge of the external world → philosophy of perception → sense-data → skepticism → |
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The Problems of Philosophy
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analytic philosophy
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20th century
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United Kingdom
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Our Knowledge of the External World (book)
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theory of knowledge
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conceptual analysis
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logical analysis → |
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English
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The Problems of Philosophy
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On Our Knowledge of the External World (chapter)
("Our Knowledge of the External World (book)")
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