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Perception (Indirect realism (Definition (Veil of perception, Perceive…

- - - - Locke
        
        Primary qualities
        
        Utterly inseperable
        
        'In and of' the object
        
        Extension, shape, motion, number, solidity
        
        Divisions of object will still hold qualities
        
        Secondary qualities
        
        'Nothing but powers to produce sensations'
        
        Colour, sound, taste, smell, temperature
      - Russell
        
        'Best hypothesis'
        
        Everyone perceives similar experiences
        
        Real objects cause similar sensations within people
- - - - Seeing something different to reality
      - E.g. bent stick in water
      - Response
        
        Relational property
        
        "Looking like" property
    - - Not seeing things directly
      - E.g. obtuse table
      - Response
        
        Relational property
        
        Relative between perceiver & object
    - - Not perceiving immediately
      - E.g. stars
      - Response
        
        How rather than what we see
    - - Perceiving objects that don't exist
      - Response
        
        Disjuncitvist theory
        
        Completely different to veridical perception
- - - - No reason to believe in mind-independent objects
      - Both immaterialist & empiricist
      - Common-sense for man to believe what he's seeing
    - - No object is conceivable oustide the mind
      - As soon as you think of one, it is in your mind
      - If an unperceived tree falls in a forest, does it make sound? (no)
    - - We cannot create perceptions, nor control them
      - God presents us bundles of ideas through sensations
      - Complex & systematic world must be God's work
      - God perceives everything in his mind