An entity that systematically and causally structures experience cannot be dismissed as a mere illusion without collapsing the distinction between veridical and hallucinatory perception.
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Perception that accurately represents reality—when you see something and it's actually there and actually looks like that.
distinction(One of the two components of Arendtian plurality)
The aspect of plurality by which no two human beings are ever interchangeable, each being endowed with a unique biography and perspective on the world
entity(as used in metaphysics)
Any individual thing or being that exists—could be a person, object, or anything else that is one distinct thing.
experience(The sense in which experience can help account for knowledge of an order of nature)
Consciousness of events as a related series
illusion(Austin's taxonomy of perceptual error)
A perceptual case involving a distinctive sensory experience that is apt to give rise to an erroneous perceptual judgment about an actually existing environmental object (e.g., a stick that looks bent but is not)