The Existence of the External World

The Pascal-Hume Principle

By Jean-René Vernes
Series: Philosophica
Publisher: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
Paperback : 9780776605197, 120 pages, November 2000
Ebook (PDF) : 9780776617114, 120 pages, November 2000

Description

Do the objects that we perceive though our senses exist autonomously, independent of the mind that perceives them? Three and a half centuries have gone by without a universally acceptable solution. Jean-René Vernes shows that this failure results from the fundamental error in classical thinking, which identifies reason with determinant reason alone.
Published in English.