Indirect Realism Overview


	Indirect Realism Overview
	Advantages P: intuitive; E: easily recognisable that there's a gap between external world + perception; E: sunlight takes eight mins to reach Earth P: defence of nature of external world; E: if more than one sense indicates same conclusion, probably is correct; E: seeing and hearing something drop = probably did occur P: defence of existence of external world; E: Locke - experience of sense data is involuntary so must be external + Russell - external world as best hypothesis, better/easier to assume external world > no world at all	Disadvantages P: scepticism about nature of external world; E: due to veil of perception we'll never have full objectivity about external world to check what it's actually like P: scepticism about existence of external world;E: gap between perception and external world which sense data doesn't help with, possibility that world doesn't exist; E: Descartes' demon could feed sense data and we wouldn't know about it
	Evaluation Indirect realism survives criticisms and explains problems caused by direct realism

P: intuitive; E: easily recognisable that there's a gap between external world + perception; E: sunlight takes eight mins to reach Earth
P: defence of nature of external world; E: if more than one sense indicates same conclusion, probably is correct; E: seeing and hearing something drop = probably did occur
P: defence of existence of external world; E: Locke - experience of sense data is involuntary so must be external + Russell - external world as best hypothesis, better/easier to assume external world > no world at all

P: scepticism about nature of external world; E: due to veil of perception we'll never have full objectivity about external world to check what it's actually like
P: scepticism about existence of external world;E: gap between perception and external world which sense data doesn't help with, possibility that world doesn't exist; E: Descartes' demon could feed sense data and we wouldn't know about it

Indirect realism survives criticisms and explains problems caused by direct realism

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