Science, Perception and Reality
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Science, Perception and Reality is a landmark collection of Wilfrid Sellars’s philosophical essays that critically examines empiricism, the nature of perception, and the relationship between scientific and everyday conceptions of the world.
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| Science, Perception and Reality canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Science, Perception and Reality Context triple: [Wilfrid Sellars, notableWork, Science, Perception and Reality]
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A.
Science and the Mind
"Science and the Mind" is a work coauthored by mathematical physicist Roger Penrose that explores the nature of consciousness and its relationship to scientific understanding.
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B.
Illustrations of the Logic of Science
Illustrations of the Logic of Science is a series of influential essays by Charles Sanders Peirce that helped lay the foundations of modern logic, scientific methodology, and pragmatism.
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C.
The Measure of Reality
The Measure of Reality is a historical study by Alfred W. Crosby that explores how quantification and measurement transformed Western thought and culture from the Middle Ages onward.
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D.
Reflections on the Romance of Science
Reflections on the Romance of Science is a collection of essays by Carl Sagan that explores the history, philosophy, and wonder of scientific discovery.
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E.
Science and Human Behavior
Science and Human Behavior is a foundational book by B. F. Skinner that systematically presents the principles of behaviorism and their application to understanding and predicting human actions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Science, Perception and Reality Target entity description: Science, Perception and Reality is a landmark collection of Wilfrid Sellars’s philosophical essays that critically examines empiricism, the nature of perception, and the relationship between scientific and everyday conceptions of the world.
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A.
Science and the Mind
"Science and the Mind" is a work coauthored by mathematical physicist Roger Penrose that explores the nature of consciousness and its relationship to scientific understanding.
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B.
Illustrations of the Logic of Science
Illustrations of the Logic of Science is a series of influential essays by Charles Sanders Peirce that helped lay the foundations of modern logic, scientific methodology, and pragmatism.
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C.
The Measure of Reality
The Measure of Reality is a historical study by Alfred W. Crosby that explores how quantification and measurement transformed Western thought and culture from the Middle Ages onward.
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D.
Reflections on the Romance of Science
Reflections on the Romance of Science is a collection of essays by Carl Sagan that explores the history, philosophy, and wonder of scientific discovery.
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E.
Science and Human Behavior
Science and Human Behavior is a foundational book by B. F. Skinner that systematically presents the principles of behaviorism and their application to understanding and predicting human actions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical essay collection ⓘ |
| author | Wilfrid Sellars ⓘ |
| critiques |
sense-data theories of perception
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traditional empiricism ⓘ |
| examines |
relationship between scientific and everyday conceptions of the world
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role of perception in knowledge ⓘ status of theoretical entities in science ⓘ |
| genre |
analytic philosophy
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philosophy ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
analytic metaphysics
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contemporary epistemology ⓘ philosophy of perception ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ |
| hasPart | collection of previously published essays ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
central text in Sellars scholarship
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landmark work in 20th-century philosophy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
behaviorism
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causal explanation ⓘ conceptual framework ⓘ empiricism ⓘ epistemology ⓘ linguistic analysis ⓘ logical empiricism ⓘ
linked to:
logical positivism
nominalism ⓘ perception ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ scientific explanation ⓘ scientific realism ⓘ sense-data theory ⓘ the manifest image ⓘ the scientific image ⓘ theoretical philosophy ⓘ theory of perception ⓘ universals ⓘ |
| notableEssayIncluded |
Counterfactuals, Dispositions, and the Causal Modalities
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Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind ⓘ Is There a Synthetic A Priori? ⓘ Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man ⓘ Realism and Nominalism ⓘ The Language of Theories ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| proposes | distinction between manifest image and scientific image ⓘ |
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