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EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE TRUTH?

derive all details that help us recognise an object from these stim-
ulations. Two famous philosophers, B. Russell and L.
Wittgeinstein, have this to say:
For instance, whether a lemon truly exists or not and how it came to
exist cannot be questioned and investigated. A lemon consists
merely of a taste sensed by the tongue, an odour sensed by the nose,
a colour and shape sensed by the eye; and only these features of it
can be subject to examination and assessment. Science can never
know the physical world. 3
It is impossible for us to reach the original physical world.
All objects around us are apprehended through one or more
means of perception such as seeing, hearing, and touching. By
processing the data in the centre of vision and in other sensory
centres, our brain, throughout our lives, confronts not the "origi-
nal" of the matter existing outside us but rather the copy formed
inside our brain. We can never know what the original forms of
these copies are like.

"The External World" Inside Our Brain
As a result of our scientific investigation of the physical facts
described so far, we may conclude the following: we can never
have direct experience of the original of anything we see, touch,
hear, and perceive as matter, "the world" or "the universe." We
merely know their copies in our brain.
Someone eating a fruit in fact is aware not of the actual fruit
itself but of a 'picture' of it in the brain. The object considered to
be a "fruit" actually consists of an electrical impression in the
brain which includes the shape, taste, smell, and texture of the

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