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8897 | The adverbial account will still be needed when a mind apprehends its sense-data [Bonjour] |
Full Idea: The adverbial account of the content of experience is almost certainly correct, because no account can be given of the relation between sense-data and the apprehending mind that is independent of the adverbial theory. | |
From: Laurence Bonjour (A Version of Internalist Foundationalism [2003], 5.1 n3) | |
A reaction: This boils down to the usual objection to sense-data, which is 'cut out the middle man'. Bonjour is right that at some point the mind has finally to experience whatever is coming in, and it must experience it in a particular way. |