External-world Definition

External-world Sentence Examples

• The individual is the only reality, whether the question be of an individual thing in the external world or an individual state in the world of mind.

• It is presented as a solution of the problem of explaining the nature of our knowledge of the external world.

• As early as 1703 he seems to have become convinced of the non-existence of an external world.

• The second part of the book is taken up with a number of metaphysical arguments to prove the impossibility of an external world.

• From the hypothesis of an external world a series of contradictions are deduced, such as that the world is both finite and infinite, is movable and immovable, &c.; and finally, Aristotle and various other philosophers are quoted, to show that the external matter they dealt with, as mere potentiality, is just nothing at all.