given or what is directly experienced, in the sense Moore, Russell and Broad used such phrases—the contents of conscious acts as well as the acts themselves. One need only recall W. Sellars' attack on the purported "Myth of the Given" and Quine's arguments that phenomena are not basic objects of experience but "hypothetical" objects—"myths" like the "gods of Homer." For Quine, ordinary macro-physical objects were also myths, along with the theoretical objects of science, that can only be justified by the theory that involves them.¹ This leads to a familiar claim made by physicalists (materialists)." /> On thinking about the mental and the physical - Hochberg Herbert | sdvig press