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'Thinking About Mathematics', 'Universals' and 'Subjective View: sec qualities and indexicals'
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / b. Primary/secondary
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Being red simply consists in looking red [McGinn]
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Relativity means differing secondary perceptions are not real disagreements [McGinn]
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Phenomenalism is correct for secondary qualities, so scepticism is there impossible [McGinn]
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Maybe all possible sense experience must involve both secondary and primary qualities [McGinn]
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You understood being red if you know the experience involved; not so with thngs being square [McGinn]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / c. Primary qualities
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You don't need to know how a square thing looks or feels to understand squareness [McGinn]
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Touch doesn't provide direct experience of primary qualities, because touch feels temperature [McGinn]
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We can perceive objectively, because primary qualities are not mind-created [McGinn]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities
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Lockean secondary qualities (unlike primaries) produce particular sensory experiences [McGinn]
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Could there be a mind which lacked secondary quality perception? [McGinn]
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Secondary qualities contain information; their variety would be superfluous otherwise [McGinn]
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The utility theory says secondary qualities give information useful to human beings [McGinn]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation
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We see objects 'directly' by representing them [McGinn]
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