Direct realism about perception, defended within both Sautrāntika and contemporary philosophy, holds that causal contact with mind-independent objects is not eliminable in favor of internal surrogates without loss of explanatory adequacy.
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An ancient Buddhist philosophical school (founded around the 4th century) that developed its own theory about how perception works and what we can know about reality.
explanatory adequacy(Used alongside extensional adequacy as a standard for evaluating virtue ethical accounts)
A theory's ability to provide satisfying explanations for why cases fall under a normative concept, not merely to classify them correctly
mind-independent objects(What Berkeley's Master Argument aims to show we cannot coherently conceive)
Objects that exist without being perceived or conceived by any mind; objects whose existence does not depend on being represented in consciousness
perception(Hume's theory of ideas)
Any mental activity that brings something before the mind; the basic unit of mental life in Hume's theory of ideas.