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Ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'The Golden Bowl, and Lit as Moral Philosophy' and 'Adverbial Theory'

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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / b. Nature of sense-data

2713	Are sense-data independent, with identity, substance and location? [Tye]
	Full Idea: Can sense-data exist unsensed? Can two persons experience numerically identical sense-data? Do sense-data have surfaces which are not sensed? What are sense-data made of? Are they located?
	From: Michael Tye (Adverbial Theory [1995], p.7)

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

7628	Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund]
	Full Idea: Broad, one of the most important modern defenders of the representative theory of perception, explicitly rejects the inferential component of the theory.
	From: report of C.D. Broad (Mind and Its Place in Nature [1925]) by Barry Maund - Perception Ch.1
	A reaction: Since the supposed inferences happen much too quickly to be conscious, it is hard to see how we could distinguish an inference from an interpretation mechanism. Personally I interpret things long before the question of truth arises.