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The Problems of Philosophy - Russell, Bertrand ยท 76 words
He then proceeds to consider common objects, such as a tree, for instance. He shows that all we know immediately when we perceive the tree consists of ideas in his sense of the word, and he argues that there is not the slightest ground for supposing that there is anything real about the tree except what is perceived. Its being, he says, consists in being perceived. in the Latin of the schoolmen its esse is percipi.
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