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Single Idea 6857
[filed under theme 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception
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Full Idea
You can end up with an error theory of perception, which says our experience is not as it seems to be, as bizarre as that might be.
Clarification
'Error theories' explain things as mistakes
Gist of Idea
An error theory of perception says our experience is not as it seems to be
Source
Michael Martin (Interview with Baggini and Stangroom [2001], p.140)
Book Ref
Baggini,J/Stangroom,J: 'New British Philosophy' [Routledge 2002], p.140
A Reaction
This is because of the clash between subjective and objective aspects of perception. It is an enticing proposal, just the sort of thing I pay philosophers to come up with. Given oddities like blindsight, I think it should be taken seriously.
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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