The proper names for these opposite conceptions are of course Noumenalism and phenomenalism. |
Thus phenomenalism sought to reduce all statements to statements about immediately perceived sense-data. |
Similarly a phenomenalism, like that of Hume, takes immediate presence to sense as the norm of being and knowledge. |
Another reason for Russell's reversion to realism was his recognition that the notion of causality is problematic for phenomenalism. |
To swear the sensory intermediaries or observation sentences into truthfulness then, one has to capitulate to sensationalism or phenomenalism and forget physicalism. |
These ideologies exploit phenomenalism and theoreticism respectively, allowing neocolonialists to factualize literature and ultranationalists to fictionalize history. |