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    It is not the case that A causal intermediary producing perceptual difficulty is not thereby the object of perception, as Grice's causal theory of perception distinguishes the veridical object from its causal chain.

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    • 1.All perception involves causal intermediaries (photons, neural events); drawing a principled line between object and intermediary appears arbitrary.
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    • 2.If intermediaries are not perceived, we cannot explain how we distinguish veridical from hallucinatory experiences through perceptual evidence alone.
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    • 3.Grice's distinction risks making perceptual content epistemically inaccessible, since we can only ever directly access the causal chain, not the object itself.
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    • 1.Veridical perception requires a direct causal chain from object to subject; intermediate causes obscure rather than constitute the perceptual relation.
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    • 2.We intuitively distinguish between perceiving an object and perceiving its causal intermediaries, as when seeing a tree differs from seeing light rays.
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    • 3.Grice's theory preserves the intuition that hallucinations lack genuine perceptual objects despite producing identical internal states and causal chains.
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