...pproximately, we may say that idealism tends to suppress the object, while realism tends to suppress the content. Idealism, accordingly, says that not... ...e known except thoughts, and all the reality that we know is mental; while realism maintains that we know objects directly, in sensation certainly, an... ...explain what seem to me to be the reasons for and against various kinds of realism. Modern idealism professes to be by no means confined to the presen... ...whether their arguments for it are valid. There are two different kinds of realism, according as we make a thought consist of act and object, or of ob... ...erception are said to be data. There is some difficulty in connecting this epistemological definition of “data” with our psychological analysis of kno...

...everything else. In the theoretical phase of philosophy, this produced the epistemological prob- lem: the question as to the possibility of any cognit... ... of them are named scho- lasticism, sensationalism, rationalism, idealism, realism, empiricism, transcendentalism, pragmatism, etc. Many of them have ...