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Sense-data
VocabularyRussell's term for the immediately experienced colors, sounds and other sensory qualities.
Explanation or usage
Russell distinguishes the sensory qualities a person immediately encounters from the physical object they are taken to reveal. A color appearance can vary with light or viewpoint while belief in a persisting object remains. This is part of a philosophical framework, not a claim that neuroscience has proved its ontology.
Common misunderstandings
Sense-data are necessarily identical to an object's intrinsic properties.
In The Problems of Philosophy
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A table's color appearance may vary with viewing conditions, while the physical table is inferred as a persisting object.