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. |