Single Idea 7628

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception]

Full Idea

Broad, one of the most important modern defenders of the representative theory of perception, explicitly rejects the inferential component of the theory.

Gist of Idea

Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory

Source

report of C.D. Broad (Mind and Its Place in Nature [1925]) by Barry Maund - Perception Ch.1

Book Reference

Maund,Barry: 'Perception' [Acumen 2003], p.7


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.