Russell’s objective is to distinguish whether the physical exists in reality or is just an essence of our imagination when dreaming. This is where the example of the table comes into the picture. According to Russell, it explains that we have beliefs that an observed table has some sort of nature where its existence is permanent and independant to our perception, where if we look away from it, its existence will still be there in the external world or simply just as an object in a dream (non-existent), which forwards the same notion to reality and other beings where the “whole outer world is a dream” (Russell, 1912, p. 6) Here Russell begins to doubt the existence of real-objects (the desk) but not the values of our sense data which primarily brings about the thought of the table. Real-objects are seen from within the sense data which is caused by the
Russell’s objective is to distinguish whether the physical exists in reality or is just an essence of our imagination when dreaming. This is where the example of the table comes into the picture. According to Russell, it explains that we have beliefs that an observed table has some sort of nature where its existence is permanent and independant to our perception, where if we look away from it, its existence will still be there in the external world or simply just as an object in a dream (non-existent), which forwards the same notion to reality and other beings where the “whole outer world is a dream” (Russell, 1912, p. 6) Here Russell begins to doubt the existence of real-objects (the desk) but not the values of our sense data which primarily brings about the thought of the table. Real-objects are seen from within the sense data which is caused by the