Epistemology · 1.2

Perception as a Source of Knowledge

Compare direct realism, indirect realism and Berkeley's idealism as competing explanations of perceptual experience and error.

Can perception give us knowledge of a mind-independent world?

Compare direct realism, indirect realism and Berkeley's idealism as competing explanations of perceptual experience and error.

Key terms

  • Perception
  • Direct realism
  • Sense-data
  • Idealism

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