Single Idea 7632

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception]

Full Idea

Three forms of (cognitive) direct realism are: two stages - non-conceptual sensory experience, then a non-sensory conceptual state; directly acquiring non-sensuous conceptual states; and sensuous states saturated with concepts.

Gist of Idea

Perception is sensation-then-concept, or direct-concepts, or sensation-saturated-in-concepts

Source

Barry Maund (Perception [2003], Ch. 3)

Book Reference

Maund,Barry: 'Perception' [Acumen 2003], p.64


A Reaction

[First: Reid, Dretske, Evans, Sellars. Second: Armstrong, Heil, Pitcher, Clark. Third: Kant, McDowell, Strawson, McGinn, Searle]. I find the first one plausible, because of the ambiguity in language, and because unusual experiences separate them.