The Existence of the External World
The Pascal-Hume Principle
- Publisher
- University of Ottawa Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2000
- Subjects
- General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780776617114
- Publish Date
- Nov 2000
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Description
Do the objects that we perceive though our senses exist autonomously, independent of the mind that perceives them? Three and a half centuries have gone by without a universally acceptable solution. Jean-René Vernes shows that this failure results from the fundamental error in classical thinking, which identifies reason with determinant reason alone