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Published: 17.07.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'External World ', 1.
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External World
<Tab/>For philosopher John Locke, knowledge about external world comes from experience. Our senses play a major role in perceiving and understanding objects and transforming them into ideas we have about external world. For myself the proof of existence of external world comes from sensation. If I can see, hear, touch, smell, taste
and feel objects, than my perception of external world is real.
<Tab/>The perception means the power to know something. When this power reaches an object, it moves to actuality. In other words when perception…

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