Answer these nine questions about Russell’s Appearance to Reality: Here is the link to the reading http://www.ditext.com/russell/rus1.html

1. What are two of the things we believe in our daily lives that can be doubted (according to what Russell says in the second paragraph)?

2. What reason does Russell give for doubting that we know the real color of a table?

3. What is the difference between what a painter wants to know and what a philosopher wants to know?

4. What reason does Russell give for doubting that we know the real texture of a table?

5. What reason does Russell give for doubting that we know the real shape of a table?

6. What is the difference between “sense data” and a “physical object (matter)”?

7. What did the philosopher Berkeley believe about matter? Philosophers who agree with Berkeley are called what?

8. According to Russell, what do our five senses enable us to know immediately? What is it that we cannot immediately know by using our five senses?

9. What value does philosophy have, according to what Russell says in the last paragraph?