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Representative Realism

The mind's relation to the world, according to representative realism:
ideasresemble
&
caused by
properties (qualities)
inin
mindsthings (material substance)

For example:
my experience of the roughness of sand paperresembles
&
is caused by
the "real" roughness
inin
my mindthe physically existing sand paper


Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 21 October 2002