Abstract

2. Experiental sentences might be expressed in a phenomenalistic or in some "material-object" idiom. In the latter case, it is preferable to construe them as attributing directly observable properties or relations to physical objects, rather than in the manner of "Smith sensed red at 5 pm"; for agreement among observers is much more readily obtained in regard to sentences of the former type; hence they are better qualified to represent a common, and fairly stable, basis of intersubjective empirical knowledge.