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    Supports→An agent can think directly about objects the agent has not perceived, provided the agent stands in an appropriate communicative chain that traces back to perceptions of that object by other agents in the chain.

    Direct thought about an object does not require that the thinking agent personally perceive the object.

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    Strawson maintained that an agent can demonstratively identify only objects that she has perceived. Neo-Russellians typically go a step further, claiming that an agent can think directly about objects she has not perceived in virtue of standing in the appropriate communicative chains ending in the object. So, even though you have never perceived Plato, we will safely suppose, you can nevertheless think directly about Plato in virtue of your standing in a communicative chain that ultimately trace

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