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    External objects are present to the mind only by means of... — Carmelics
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    External objects are present to the mind only by means of internal mental appearances that serve as proxies for them

    Perception
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    • 1.Perceptual appearances are entirely mental and internal rather than relational
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    • 2.Some cognitive access to external objects is nonetheless achieved through perception
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    • 1.Perception is a direct causal relation between mind and world, not mediated by inner proxies (Gibson's ecological realism, Putnam's direct realism).
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    • 2.Positing mental intermediaries generates an explanatory regress: proxies themselves require perception, undermining the account's foundations.
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    • 1.The content of perceptual experience is partly constituted by its external objects, not internal surrogates (McDowell's disjunctivism, Snowdon 1981).
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    • 2.If veridical and hallucinatory experiences share only a highest common factor, the special epistemic force of genuine perception is lost, not preserved.
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    Both theories suffer from an apparent inability to handle error. Science frequently teaches us that things are not in reality the way they appear to the senses. The sun, for example, perceptually appears as a small disk rather than the large sphere that it is (Descartes 1641). This perceptual experience cannot involve either the transmission of forms (since the sun doesn’t have those forms), or the “direct pick-up” of objective properties (again, those properties aren’t there to pick up). Nor co
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