. Bennett’s name for a doctrine, or perhaps just assumption, which he attributes to Locke in particular. This is that we are in effect separated by a veil from the world outside our minds, so that we can only perceive things outside us by having...

A generic term that broadly refers to theories of perception in which the mind, it is argued, does not have direct experience of phenomena but only through the medium of ideas transmitted to it, usually through language. This is a significance concept...

Representative Theory of Perception, also known as Indirect realism, epistemological dualism, and The veil of perception, is a philosophical concept. It states that we do not (and can not) perceive the external world directly; instead we know only our...