Sentence examples for of external world from inspiring English sources

Historically, the topic of dreaming has mostly been discussed in the context of external world skepticism.

However, the ancient skeptics might conceive of their own kind of external world skepticism.

As already noted, Descartes writes — of external world doubts — that "no sane person has ever seriously doubted" such matters.

Another approach to the question of whether Sextus envisages some kind of external world skepticism is to turn to his discussions of physics.

Sawyer, moreover, explicitly discourages those who interpret her (1998) as embracing the reductio as an anti-skeptical argument: "Remarks by others indicate that in general the question of whether externalist arguments yield apriori warrants for beliefs about environmental conditions is seen as synonymous with the question whether we have an apriori refutation of external world skepticism.

All these findings indicate the importance of superior aspect of posterior parietal cortex in humans in a function of self-referential (egocentric) spatial processing of external world.

The inherent appeal to empirical plausibility is also what sets Cartesian dream skepticism apart from alternative versions of external-world skepticism such as the evil genius hypothesis, the brain-in-a-vat thought experiment and Matrix-style scenarios of deception.

Erasmus Darwin grandfather of Charles said in : "[plants] possess ideas…of…many of the properties of the external world, and of their own existence".

The situation may parallel that of the existence of an external world, the existence of other minds, and a number of other familiar matters.

In opposition to Hegel's view of reality as the self-realization of "Spirit," they affirmed the stability of aspects of the external world.

A person who accepts this challenge will, in effect, be addressing the larger philosophical problem of knowledge of the external world.