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Single Idea 2780
[filed under theme 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception
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Full Idea
There are three main families of theories of perception: direct realism, indirect realism, and phenomenalism.
Gist of Idea
Perception is either direct realism, indirect realism, or phenomenalism
Source
Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 10.2)
Book Ref
Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.144
The
34 ideas
with the same theme
[process from raw experience to awareness of reality]:
1506
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Parmenides treats perception and intellectual activity as the same
[Theophrastus on Parmenides]
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20802
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Snow is not white, and doesn't even appear white, because it is made of black water
[Anaxagoras, by Cicero]
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2045
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Perception is infallible, suggesting that it is knowledge
[Plato]
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2067
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Our senses could have been separate, but they converge on one mind
[Plato]
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17711
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Our minds take on the form of what is being perceived
[Aristotle, by Mares]
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1724
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Perception necessitates pleasure and pain, which necessitates appetite
[Aristotle]
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1725
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Why can't we sense the senses? And why do senses need stimuli?
[Aristotle]
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1730
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Why do we have many senses, and not just one?
[Aristotle]
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1732
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Sense organs aren't the end of sensation, or they would know what does the sensing
[Aristotle]
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16723
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Perception of sensible objects is virtually never wrong
[Aristotle]
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12379
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You cannot understand anything through perception
[Aristotle]
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2664
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If we have complete healthy senses, what more could the gods give us?
[Cicero]
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22167
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Our images of bodies are not produced by the bodies, but by our own minds
[Augustine, by Aquinas]
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16724
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The senses deceive, but also show their own errors
[Bacon]
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19353
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'Perception' is basic internal representation, and 'apperception' is reflective knowledge of perception
[Leibniz]
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19419
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Not all of perception is accompanied by consciousness
[Leibniz]
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7631
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Sensation is not committed to any external object, but perception is
[Reid]
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15609
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The sensible is distinguished from thought by being about singular things
[Hegel]
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21773
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Experience is immediacy, unity, forces, self-awareness, reason, culture, absolute being
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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20119
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We became increasingly conscious of our sense impressions in order to communicate them
[Nietzsche]
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24209
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Senses are unaware of each other, and give isolated information
[Weil]
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2780
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Perception is either direct realism, indirect realism, or phenomenalism
[Dancy,J]
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12581
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Perceptual concepts causally influence the content of our experiences
[Peacocke]
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4264
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Perception (which involves an assessment) is a higher state than sensation
[Scruton]
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6502
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Can we reduce perception to acquisition of information, which is reduced to causation or disposition?
[Robinson,H]
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6513
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Would someone who recovered their sight recognise felt shapes just by looking?
[Robinson,H]
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2397
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'Perception' means either an action or a mental state
[Chalmers]
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6366
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Perception causes beliefs in us, without inference or justification
[Pollock/Cruz]
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6860
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How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between?
[Williamson]
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6857
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An error theory of perception says our experience is not as it seems to be
[Martin,M]
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7632
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Perception is sensation-then-concept, or direct-concepts, or sensation-saturated-in-concepts
[Maund]
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14585
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We have more than five senses; balance and proprioception, for example
[Mumford/Anjum]
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20924
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In phenomenology, all perception is 'seeing as'
[Zimmermann,J]
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14694
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"My dog's got synaesthesia." How does he smell? .....
[Sommers,W]
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