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Probability and the Evidence of our Senses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

D. H. Mellor
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Our knowledge of the world comes to us, one way or another, through our senses. I know there's a table here, because I see it, and that there's traffic outside, because I hear it. And similarly for our other senses. I know when it's cold, because I feel it; when there's sugar in my tea, because I taste it; smoke in the air, because I smell it; and so on.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 30 , September 1991 , pp. 117 - 128
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1991

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1 This lecture has been somewhat revised for publication. The final version has been improved by comments made by Robert Nola (who drew my attention to Ayer, ‘Knowledge, belief and evidence’, MCS) and Jamie Whyte.