Against phenomenalism

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To claim that the relationship between the framework of sense contents and that of physical objects can be construed on the phenomalist model¹ is to commit oneself to the idea that there are inductively confirmable generalizations² about sense contents which are in principle capable of being formulated without the language of physical things. This idea is a mistake.

— Phenomenalism

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1. to think of physical objects as constellations of sense contents ↩

2. subjunctive conditionals ↩