An immediate object of perception, which is not a material object; a sense impression.
〔哲〕感觉资料；感觉印象
the material world cannot be directly grasped via sense data or empirical observation
Example sentencesExamples
I believe the world to be only ideas, sense data, perceptions, call it what you will.
All meaningful concepts can be reduced to sense data, and our scientific theories are simply convenient resumes of our observations.
Postmodern theorists tell us we understand the world as a narrative, a story, what we think of as Reality is in fact a story we tell ourselves or our brains make up for us out of the flood of sense data.
This way of putting it will appear absurd, if understanding is subsuming a sense datum under an idea, and if the body is an object.
If both science and religion both use logic and faith, then they are just competing systems of organizing our sense data.
Definition of sense datum in US English:
sense datum
nounˈdādəm
Philosophy
An immediate object of perception, which is not a material object; a sense impression.
〔哲〕感觉资料；感觉印象
the material world cannot be directly grasped via sense data or empirical observation
Example sentencesExamples
I believe the world to be only ideas, sense data, perceptions, call it what you will.
If both science and religion both use logic and faith, then they are just competing systems of organizing our sense data.
All meaningful concepts can be reduced to sense data, and our scientific theories are simply convenient resumes of our observations.
This way of putting it will appear absurd, if understanding is subsuming a sense datum under an idea, and if the body is an object.
Postmodern theorists tell us we understand the world as a narrative, a story, what we think of as Reality is in fact a story we tell ourselves or our brains make up for us out of the flood of sense data.