英和和英

名詞

external world (複数形 external worlds)

1. (philosophy) The world consisting of all the objects and events which are experienceable or whose existence is accepted by the human mind, but which exist independently of the mind.
   • 1882, Josiah Royce, "Mind and Reality," Mind, vol. 7, no. 25, p. 30:

     Human beings are able to form ideas that correspond in some way with a real world, outside of themselves. . . . [T]o each necessary relation a:b in human consciousness, there corresponds a relation A:B in the external world.

   • 1954, Daniel Cory, "God or the External World," The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 51, no. 2, p. 61:

     Is not a vast "background" of experience what we all really mean by an external world, or God, according to the mood we are in?

   • 2003, Ram Neta, "Contextualism and the Problem of the External World," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 66, no. 1, p. 1:

     Skeptics . . . claim that our evidence can't support our beliefs about the external world.

派生語

• problem of the external world

参考

• noumenon
• phenomenal world
• real world