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What does phenomenalism mean?

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  1. (philosophy) The doctrine that physical objects exist only as perceptual phenomena or sensory stimuli
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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.

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