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    A rat-delusion (hallucination of pink rats) involves a distinctive sensory experience that dictates an erroneous perceptual judgment by accurately representing features present in that experience

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    • 1.Cases of illusion and delusion are of the same basic type
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    • 2.In illusion cases, the sensory experience dictates an erroneous judgment by accurately representing features present in the experience
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    • 3.Therefore the same structure applies to delusion cases such as an alcoholic judging that pink rats are visible when none are present
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    • 1.Hallucinations, unlike illusions, lack any external object whose properties could be 'accurately represented' in experience.
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    • 2.Without an external referent, the notion of a sensory experience 'accurately representing features present in it' collapses into incoherence.
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    • 3.Therefore the illusionist structural analogy fails: hallucinations cannot inherit the representative accuracy that illusions derive from real objects.
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    • 1.Ayer and the sense-datum tradition hold that hallucinations reveal a layer of experience numerically distinct from physical objects.
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    • 2.If hallucinatory experience has its own intrinsic qualitative character independently of the world, then erroneous judgment arises from misidentifying sense-data with absent objects, not from experience 'dictating' judgment by accurate self-representation.
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    • 3.The claim thus mislocates the error: it is a classificatory mistake about the status of sense-data, not a case of accurate inner representation generating false outer belief.
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    Key Terms

    Perceptual judgment(the knowledge side of the confusion being described)
    The mental act of using your senses to form a conclusion or belief about what you're experiencing.
    Representing (in philosophy of perception)(explaining how hallucinations present features even though they're false)
    When a sensory experience depicts or shows features—it's like your brain is displaying an image or description of something, whether real or not.
    Sensory experience(refers to what you see, hear, feel, etc.)
    Information your five senses (sight, sound, touch, taste, smell) bring to your brain about the world around you.
    erroneous(as used in epistemology)
    Incorrect or mistaken; not matching reality.
    hallucination(philosophy of perception)
    An experience that phenomenologically seems to be a direct presentation of an ordinary object but is subjectively indistinguishable from a veridical experience of such an object.

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    The distinction between sensory perception and judgmental acumen enables Austin to distinguish between central cases of illusion and central cases of delusion, and also to sketch explanations of what is going on in those cases that do not make appeal to sense-data. Austin takes the defender of (i) and (ii) to argue as follows. First, consider an illusion, for example a stick that looks bent but really isn’t. Such an illusion has two key features. First, it clearly involves a distinctive sensory
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