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Full Idea
One can taste that the wine is sour, and one can also taste the sourness of the wine.
Gist of Idea
One can taste that the wine is sour, and one can also taste the sourness of the wine
Source
Tim Crane (Elements of Mind [2001], 5.42)
Book Ref
Crane,Tim: 'Elements of Mind' [OUP 2001], p.139
A Reaction
…so sense data are optional? We create sense data by objectifying them, but animals just taste the wine, and are direct realists. Tasting the sourness seems to be a case of abstraction.
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