external world

Definitions

The world consisting of all the objects and events which are experienceable or whose existence is accepted by the human mind, but which exist independently of the mind.

Equivalents

Examples

“Human beings are able to form⟳ ideas that correspond in some way with a real world, outside of themselves. . . . [T]o each necessary relation a:b in human consciousness, there corresponds a relation A:B in the external world.”

“Is not a vast "background" of experience⟳ what we all really mean⟳ by an external world, or God, according to the mood we are in?”

“Skeptics . . . claim⟳ that our evidence can't support⟳ our beliefs about the external world.”

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