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    It is not the case that Adverbial theories of sensation (Sellars, Chisholm) show that even denying sense-data as objects does not entail those sensory episodes are illusory—they remain real mental events with causal efficacy.

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    • 1.Adverbial accounts struggle with phenomenal variation: how can one mental event have properties (like spatial extension) sensations seeming to possess?
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    • 2.The claim that adverbial modification alone captures sensory content faces the problem of inexplicable phenomenal distinctions without relata.
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    • 3.Denying sense-data objects may eliminate the very entities that ground causal efficacy—episodes without contents lack determinate causal powers.
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    • 1.Sensory episodes can be real events without being object-involving; 'seeing red' names a genuine mental occurrence independent of sense-data.
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    • 2.Adverbial theory explains causal powers of sensations (triggering beliefs, guiding behavior) without ontological commitment to intermediary objects.
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    • 3.Rejecting sense-data objects avoids skeptical problems while preserving realism about the sensory episode itself as a mental particular.
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