Common Sense Realism: A Theory Of Perception

Common sense realism is a philosophy of mind rooted in a theory of perception that claims that the senses provide us with direct awareness of the external world in contrast some forms of idealism asserts that no world exists apart from my dependent ideas and some forms of skepticism says we cannot trust our senses. The realist view is that we perceive object as they really are they are composed of matter and occupy space and have properties such as size, shape, taste, color that are usually perceived correctly. Objects obey the laws of physics and retain all their properties whether or not there is anyone to observe them. Common Sense realism can be characterizes as the acceptance of the following beliefs they say that there exist the world of material objects, some statements about these objects can be known to be true through sense experience, these object exist not only when they are being perceived but also when they are not perceive also the objects of perception are perception independent because these objects are able to retain properties of the types we perceive as having even when they are not being perceived their properties. Also our means of our senses we …show more content…
They claim that scientific claims are true and that scientific claim constitute knowledge. There are many views on the relationship between scientific realism and sensory observation. One view is called inductionism. Inductionism hold that scientific knowledge is based on sense observation, making particular observation , generalizing to general laws, and confirming the laws through additional observation. The problem is sense observation by themselves cannot select the correct general laws. The Hypothetical method view of science says reason formulates generalization and theories are tested by sense observation and experiments. They must be falsified by observable