What does "disjunctivism" mean?

A school of thought that rejects the existence of sense data in certain cases, believing that a hallucination differs from a veridical experience in that the latter is the experience of an actual external entity.

Disjunctivism

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1
A school of thought that rejects the existence of sense data in certain cases, believing that a hallucination differs from a veridical experience in that the latter is the experience of an actual external entity. uncountable

Etymology

From disjunctive + -ism.

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