Appearance and Reality

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[Date]Appearance and Reality

Introduction

One of the foremost focal point of Philosophy is to extricate the distinction between appearance and reality. the paper first discuses the theories of the two famous philosophers, Descartes and Hume, regarding the philosophical distinction between appearance and reality then the paper relates these theories with the Russell's point of view regarding the distinction between appearance and reality. The purpose of the study is to discuss how the philosophers incorporate the concepts of sensation and sense data analysis in the process of differentiating the fact of appearance and reality.

Discussion

It is evidenced that the concept of the distinction between appearance and reality is so crucial in the context of philosophy. In his essay “appearance and reality”, Bertrand Russell highlights a question regarding the existence of an unquestionable knowledge. In this question he attempted to enlighten the facts regarding the factualness of the difference in appearance and reality. He narrated this concept as if there is a possibility of the existence of any knowledge that is beyond reasonable doubts.

Russell embraces Cartesian technique of radical doubt in order to complement his approach to appearance versus reality. In his work “appearance and reality”, Russell highlighted the philosophical confusion regarding the fact of being perceived or actual existence. He discussed how the radical doubt causes most commonly self evident assumption to go under re-evaluation. To elucidate this concept he used an example of a table. He argued the distinction between the actual existence and the perceived existence of a particular table. He discussed how a single table can be perceived in different forms by different people accordingly to their sensations and ability to interpret the sense data.

Russell argued that different people can perceived a single table in different colors with different textures. Russell related ...