Single Idea 22422

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / b. Primary/secondary]

Full Idea

The inseparability thesis about perception says that for any actual and possible sense the content of experiences delivered by that sense must be both of secondary qualities and of primary qualities.

Gist of Idea

Maybe all possible sense experience must involve both secondary and primary qualities

Source

Colin McGinn (Subjective View: sec qualities and indexicals [1983], 6)

Book Reference

McGinn,Colin: 'The Subjective View' [OUP 1983], p.81


A Reaction

That would mean that all possible experience must have a mode of presentation, and also must be 'of' something independent of experience. So a yellow after-image would not count as an 'experience'?