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'Perception', 'The Nature of Truth' and 'Intermediate Logic'
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception
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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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Would someone who recovered their sight recognise felt shapes just by looking? [Robinson,H]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / b. Primary/secondary
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Secondary qualities have one sensory mode, but primary qualities can have more [Robinson,H]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / c. Primary qualities
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We say objects possess no intrinsic secondary qualities because physicists don't need them [Robinson,H]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities
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If objects are not coloured, and neither are sense-contents, we are left saying that nothing is coloured [Robinson,H]
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Shape can be experienced in different ways, but colour and sound only one way [Robinson,H]
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If secondary qualities match senses, would new senses create new qualities? [Robinson,H]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation
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Most moderate empiricists adopt Locke's representative theory of perception [Robinson,H]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory
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Sense-data leads to either representative realism or phenomenalism or idealism [Robinson,H]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / b. Nature of sense-data
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Sense-data do not have any intrinsic intentionality [Robinson,H]
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For idealists and phenomenalists sense-data are in objects; representative realists say they resemble objects [Robinson,H]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems
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Sense-data are rejected because they are a veil between us and reality, leading to scepticism [Robinson,H]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 8. Adverbial Theory
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'Sense redly' sounds peculiar, but 'senses redly-squarely tablely' sounds far worse [Robinson,H]
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Adverbialism sees the contents of sense-experience as modes, not objects [Robinson,H]
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If there are only 'modes' of sensing, then an object can no more be red or square than it can be proud or lazy. [Robinson,H]
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