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Phenomenalism is, historically, the doctrine that we are acquainted in experience only with sensations, or sense data. The contrary doctrine that we are directly acquainted in experience with particu-physical objects which have their own existence independently of being perceived by us, and is known as realism or, to distinguish it from realism about universals, epistemological realism.
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© 1979 Bernard Harrison
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Harrison, B. (1979). Naming, Necessity and Natural Kinds. In: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language. Modern Introductions to Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16227-7_9
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