Abstract

AMATO, MANUEL ALEJANDRO. PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCE, VAGUENESS, AND NAIVE REALISM. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2018, vol.67, suppl.4, pp.149-164. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v67n4supl.73374.

Modern philosophers like Berkeley and Hume deployed skeptical arguments against so-called naive realism: the idea that perceptual experience provides direct access to the world. Michael Martin and John Campbell critique those arguments and champion a new form of naive realism known as relationalism. The article argues that both naive and relational realism are false and defends the main thesis set forth by Berkeley and Hume: there are no perfectly true experiences of material objects.

Keywords : G. Berkeley; D. Hume; perception; naive realism; relationalism; vagueness.

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