Single Idea 12579

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

Full Idea

Perceptual experience has a second layer of nonconceptual representational content, distinct from immediate 'scenarios' and from conceptual contents. These additional contents I call 'protopropositions', containing an individual and a property/relation.

Gist of Idea

Perception has proto-propositions, between immediate experience and concepts

Source

Christopher Peacocke (A Study of Concepts [1992], 3.3)

Book Reference

Peacocke,Christopher: 'A Study of Concepts' [MIT 1999], p.77


A Reaction

When philosophers start writing this sort of thing, I want to turn to neuroscience and psychology. I suppose the philosopher's justification for this sort of speculation is epistemological, but I see no good coming of it.