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    Challenges→Representing two objects as 'brighter than' one another does not require representing them as part of a larger brightness space.

    A perceiver who genuinely represents brightness difference, rather than mere qualitative otherness, must situate both relata within a dimension that makes degree-comparisons intelligible.

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    Perceiver(as used in philosophy of perception)
    A person or being that experiences something through their senses, like hearing a sound or seeing a color.
    Relata(in philosophy of relations)
    The individual things that a relation connects—for example, in 'Alice loves Bob,' Alice and Bob are the relata (the things being related).
    degree-comparisons(as used in philosophy of perception)
    The ability to say that one thing is more or less of something than another (for example, 'this light is brighter than that light').
    dimension(as used in describing color perception)
    A separate axis or direction you can measure something along—like how a graph has an up-down dimension and a left-right dimension.
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    (as used in philosophy of perception)
    Accurately captures or reflects something as it actually is, rather than just appearing similar to it.
    qualitative otherness(as used in philosophy of perception and metaphysics)
    The property of being simply different in kind or type, without any measurable amount or degree involved.

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