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What does phenomenalism mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) The doctrine that physical objects exist only as perceptual phenomena or sensory stimuli
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Similarly a phenomenalism, like that of Hume, takes immediate presence to sense as the norm of being and knowledge.
Kants Critical position is more correctly described as phenomenalism than as subjectivism.
Thus phenomenalism sought to reduce all statements to statements about immediately perceived sense-data.
In so far as subjectivism reduces reality to states of knowledge, such as perceptions or ideas, it is phenomenalism.
Ayer by now thought phenomenalism was unsuccessful in this attempt, and again reductionism would not work for the future cases.
Edwards' mental phenomenalism is a natural extension of his occasionalism and views on substance.

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