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Our Knowledge of the External World

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theory of perception

  • David Hume
    In positivism: The critical positivism of Mach and Avenarius

    In a work entitled Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), Russell analyzed the concept of physical objects as comprising classes of (perceptual) aspects or perspectives, an idea that later stimulated the work of Rudolf Carnap, an outstanding philosophical semanticist and analyst, entitled Der logische Aufbau der Welt (1928;…

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