1.When we read the books on philosophy, we could easily discover that the philosophers are disputing with each other endlessly. The realists would dispute with the idealists. To the realists the external objects are known directly by applying our senses on them. But the idealists would not agree with this. To the idealists what we know are only ideas in our head. We have no basis to talk about external objects.
2. There is no solution to this controversy because the claims of both the idealists and the realists could neither be proved nor disproved. They are relying on the same instrument of knowing i.e. the senses. When the sense of sight is in question, for example, we can't use any other sense of sight to settle the dispute, because every sense of sight is a party to the dispute.
3.The ordinary man would not think that there is any problem at all. Of course I know that the sun exists. I can feel that it is now burning my skin. I can only take a quick look at it if I do not want my eyes to be blinded by it.
4.But how do we prove that what we see is actually what we are seeing ? To confirm, we must compare the two objects, but this is impossible.
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