Concept

Critical realism (philosophy of perception)

Overview

theory that some of our sense-data (for example, those of primary qualities) can and do accurately represent external objects, properties, and events

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Critical realism (philosophy of perception)

• Wilfrid Sellars
• Nicolai Hartmann
• Donald Cary Williams

Related ideas

• Empiricism
• Neo-Kantianism
• Isaac Newton
• Idealism
• John Locke
• Philosophy of perception
• Sense data
• H. H. Price
• Galileo Galilei
• Wilfrid Sellars
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Nicolai Hartmann
• Atomism
• Naïve realism
• Direct and indirect realism
• Routledge
• Democritus
• C. D. Broad
• Pragmatism
• Roy Wood Sellars
• Primary–secondary quality distinction

Place in the tradition

Part of American philosophy.

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