Russell s Appearance to Reality Questions
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Answer these nine questions about Russell’s Appearance to Reality: Here is the link to the reading http://www.ditext.com/russell/rus1.html
- What are two of the things we believe in our daily lives that can be doubted (according to what Russell says in the second paragraph)?
- What reason does Russell give for doubting that we know the real color of a table?
- What is the difference between what a painter wants to know and what a philosopher wants to know?
- What reason does Russell give for doubting that we know the real texture of a table?
- What reason does Russell give for doubting that we know the real shape of a table?
- What is the difference between “sense data” and a “physical object (matter)”?
- What did the philosopher Berkeley believe about matter? Philosophers who agree with Berkeley are called what?
- According to Russell, what do our five senses enable us to know immediately? What is it that we cannot immediately know by using our five senses?
- What value does philosophy have, according to what Russell says in the last paragraph?