ABSTRACT

In the last three chapters we have been trying to show the mistakes of the Naive View of the dispute with regard to the nature of the given, in suggesting that the theorist is in each case drawing attention to something which may be empirically discovered within our experience. The so-called 'discovery' of 'immediate experience', 'sense-data' or even 'objects', turns out to involve all sorts of other factors and can by no means be regarded as a simple recourse to the facts.