“In the Vienna of the late 1020s and 1930s there throve an internationally famous philosophical bunch called the logical positivists. …They said that a key ingredient of knowledge was "sense data," and proclaimed emphatically, in the words of… J. S. L. Gilmour, that sense data are "objective and unalterable."”

—  Howard Bloom

…Good guess, but no cigar!
Source: Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (2000), Ch.7 A Trip Through the Perception Factory

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