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nounindirect realism (uncountable)
- uncountableepistemologySynonym of representationalism.
As well as being prey to illusions, we can also have hallucinations in which there is nothing actually there to perceive at all. It is both of these phenomena that are seen to drive the following key argument for indirect realism.
2007 November 26, Daniel O'Brien, “Objects of Perception”, in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2010Synonyms: representationalism
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nounSynonym of representationalism.
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