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Ideas for Anaxarchus, Robert Audi and Carneades

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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation
To see something as a field, I obviously need the concept of a field [Audi,R]
     Full Idea: The propositional belief which portrays what I see in front of me AS a field requires my having a concept of one.
     From: Robert Audi (Epistemology: contemporary introduction [1998], I p.17)
     A reaction: To me this immediately invites the question of what a cow or horse experiences when they look at a familiar field. They know how to leave and enter it, and register its boundaries and qualities. Concepts?
How could I see a field and believe nothing regarding it? [Audi,R]
     Full Idea: How could I see a field and believe nothing regarding it?
     From: Robert Audi (Epistemology: contemporary introduction [1998], I p.20)
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory
Sense data imply representative realism, possibly only representing primary qualities [Audi,R]
     Full Idea: A sense-datum theory might be called a representative realism because it conceives perception as a relation in which sense-data represent perceived external (hence real) objects to us. For Locke they were resemblances only of primary qualities.
     From: Robert Audi (Epistemology: contemporary introduction [1998], I p.33)
Sense-data (and the rival 'adverbial' theory) are to explain illusions and hallucinations [Audi,R]
     Full Idea: The sense-datum theory is mainly to explain hallucinations and illusions, though there might be other theories, such as the 'adverbial' theory.
     From: Robert Audi (Epistemology: contemporary introduction [1998], I p.36)
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation
Perception is first simple, then objectual (with concepts) and then propositional [Audi,R]
     Full Idea: Simple perceiving gives rise to objectual perceiving (attaching concepts to the object), which gives rise to propositional perceiving.
     From: Robert Audi (Epistemology: contemporary introduction [1998], I p.23)