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    It is not the case that Disjunctivists like McDowell and Hinton argue that veridical perception and dreams are fundamentally different kinds of states sharing only a subjective character, leaving relational accounts of genuine perception intact.

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    • 1.If veridical perception and hallucination differ in kind, not degree, disjunctivism cannot explain why they're subjectively indistinguishable to the subject.
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    • 2.Disjunctivism implies perception and hallucination have no common cognitive mechanism, making learning from both states metaphysically mysterious.
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    • 3.The relational account fails for cases of perceptual illusion (bent stick in water) where perception relates to objects but misrepresents their properties.
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    • 1.Veridical perception presents mind-independent objects directly; dreams present only mental content. These are fundamentally distinct relational states.
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    • 2.If perception and dreams shared the same kind of state, skepticism about the external world would be irrefutable, making empirical knowledge impossible.
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    • 3.Disjunctivism preserves realism about perception without requiring problematic sense-datum intermediaries between mind and world.
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