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    A conception of an object amounts to a perception when th... — Carmelics
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    A conception of an object amounts to a perception when the conception arises from a natural sign that produces the conception solely through one's constitution.

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    • 1.A natural sign leads one to a conception of an object.
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    • 2.The natural sign leads to the conception merely because of one's constitution, not through reasoning or inference.
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    • 3.When a conception arises in this way, it is accompanied by a conviction of its accuracy.
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    • 1.Sellars argued in 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind' that no mental state can carry epistemic authority without being embedded in a normative inferential web.
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    • 2.A conviction produced solely by constitutional response, without inferential grounding, cannot constitute the kind of accuracy-tracking required for genuine perceptual warrant.
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    • 3.Therefore, Reid's constitutionally-triggered conviction conflates causal reliability with epistemic justification, leaving the claim normatively inert.
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    • 1.Helmholtz demonstrated that perceptual experience involves unconscious inference, meaning constitution alone cannot explain how signs yield conceptions.
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    • 2.If unconscious inferential processes mediate between natural signs and conceptions, Reid's distinction between perception and reasoning collapses from within.
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    Placing my hand on a table, my tactile sensation immediately leads my mind to a conception or apprehension that I am touching a hard object. When does one's conception of an object as having a particular quality amount to a perception, a conception accompanied by a conviction of its accuracy? The answer is: when one comes to have that conception because one has encountered a natural sign which leads one to the conception, and that natural sign leads one to the conception merely because of one's
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