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? i.Secure https://nu.blackboard.com/webapps/as ke/launch.jsp?course-assessment_id -1 95963-1 &course;,?da80081,1 &new.attempts; 1 s Question Completion Status: QUESTION 20 What does Bertrand Russell say about our ability to have knowledge of the external world? a For Russell,there is no such thing as an "external" world. Therefore, there can be no such knowledge. b Russell agrees with Berkeley: what we know is ideas and all ideas are in some mind or other, so it is simply the mind's ability to have ideas that enables us to have knowledge in the first place, and it only those ideas that we know in the external world. C Russell asserts that we can never truly judge that something with which we are not immediately acquainted in fact exists. Therefore our knowledge of the external world requires communicating with others about their sense data and and then comparing their reports with our own sense data. d.The relation consisting of the mind's acquaintance with something other than the mind is the main characteristic of the mind and is the foundation of our ability to have knowledge of the external world. We are justified in inferring the existence of both sides of this relation, and this is the form our knowledge of the external world takes oe Russell daims that it is rational to go any distance beyond our immediate sensory grasp of the external world and make a leap to asserting the existence of anything beyond the sense-data of subjective experience, so we can only have certainty about the subjective side of reality. We can never know reality in itself QUESTION 21 This is the Week One Pre-Test.

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The correct answer is Option D. Russel claims that the relation of the mind’s acquaintance with something other than the kind is the main characteristic of the mind and is the foundation of our ability to have knowledge of the external world.

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