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The Reification of Appearance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

J.J. Ross
Affiliation:
Jews' College, London.

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By all indications, the popularity of the Sense-Datum Theory is definitely on the wane. This once-proud theory, which was perhaps the most characteristic feature of British Philosophy during the first half of this century, has been attacked from so many different sides that even its foremost protagonists have either accepted the very watered-down version according to which it is just an alternative language for speaking about the facts of perception or else they hold their peace and let the youngsters play. There are still some diehards who carry on as if nothing had happened, but they are an insignificant minority.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1965

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