The argument from illusion is an argument for the existence of sense-data. It is posed as a criticism of direct realism. Naturally-occurring illusions best...
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Direct and indirect realism (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
delusion". The argument from illusion allegedly shows the need to posit sense-data as the immediate objects of perception. In cases of illusion or hallucination...
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generally shared by most people. Illusions may occur with any of the human senses, but visual illusions (optical illusions) are the best-known and understood...
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teleological argument (from τέλος, telos, 'end, aim, goal') also known as physico-theological argument, argument from design, or intelligent design argument, is...
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dream argument is the postulation that the act of dreaming provides preliminary evidence that the senses we trust to distinguish reality from illusion should...
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Naïve realism (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
contends that the rejection of direct realism is based on a bad argument: the argument from illusion, which in turn relies on vague assumptions on the nature...
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The argument from free will, also called the paradox of free will or theological fatalism, contends that omniscience and free will are incompatible and...
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Jonathan Dancy (category Use dmy dates from April 2022)
epistemology, and more particularly on the nature of perception (argument from illusion), he emerged as the leading proponent in ethics of moral particularism...
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reports may be illusions. American analytic philosophers Alvin Plantinga and William Alston developed arguments for accepting knowledge gained from religious...
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The argument from consciousness is an argument for the existence of God that claims characteristics of human consciousness (such as qualia) cannot be explained...
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Straw man (redirect from Strawman argument)
is said to be "attacking a straw man". The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through...
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John McDowell (category BLP articles lacking sources from January 2024)
the argument from illusion is better described as an argument from delusion if it is to make its central point.) In the classic argument from illusion (delusion)...
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The Moon illusion is an optical illusion which causes the Moon to appear larger near the horizon than it does higher up in the sky. It has been known...
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Philosophy of perception (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
development than the topology of the stimulus itself. Anil Gupta Argument from illusion Arthur Schopenhauer Āyatana Binding problem Consciousness Direct...
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Sense data (category Articles needing additional references from January 2019)
sense data is supported by a number of arguments. The first is popularly known as the argument from illusion. From a subjective experience of perceiving...
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Existence of God (redirect from Argument against the existence of God)
cosmological arguments. Other arguments for the existence of God have been proposed by St. Anselm, who formulated the first ontological argument; Thomas Aquinas...
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Problem of evil (redirect from Moral argument from evil)
does not stop this "illusion". A different approach to the problem of evil is to turn the tables by suggesting that any argument from evil is self-refuting...
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Moral nihilism (redirect from Argument from queerness)
tolerance, creation, and cooperation. The most prominent argument for nihilism is the argument from queerness. J. L. Mackie argues that there are no objective...
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argument is a deductive philosophical argument, made from an ontological basis, that is advanced in support of the existence of God. Such arguments tend...
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The illusion of control is the tendency for people to overestimate their ability to control events. It was named by U.S. psychologist Ellen Langer and...
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Index of philosophy articles (A–C) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Argument from desire Argument from evil Argument from fallacy Argument from free will Argument from ignorance Argument from illusion Argument from inconsistent...
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Semantic argument is a type of argument in which one fixes the meaning of a term in order to support their argument. Semantic arguments are commonly used...
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The Kalam cosmological argument is a modern formulation of the cosmological argument for the existence of God. It is named after the Kalam (medieval Islamic...
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The introspection illusion is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly think they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while treating...
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Index of epistemology articles (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Anti-foundationalism – Anti-realism – Apperception – Arda Denkel – Argument from illusion – Aristotle's theory of universals – Arnór Hannibalsson – Ásta Kristjana...
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The Future of an Illusion (German: Die Zukunft einer Illusion) is a 1927 work by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which Freud discusses...
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In the philosophy of mind, the user illusion is a metaphor for a proposed description of consciousness that argues that conscious experience does not directly...
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Mind–body dualism (redirect from Arguments against mind–body dualism)
have developed an argument for dualism dubbed the "argument from reason". They credit C. S. Lewis with first bringing the argument to light in his book...
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Chinese room (redirect from Chinese room argument)
The Chinese room argument holds that a computer executing a program cannot have a mind, understanding, or consciousness, regardless of how intelligently...
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The dress (redirect from The Dress (optical illusion))
Archived from the original on 13 July 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2015. "Optical illusion: Dress color debate goes global". BBC News. BBC. Archived from the original...
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