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    It is not the case that Gibsonian ecological perception and McDowell's disjunctivism both ground veridical perception in direct causal-relational contact with distal material objects, not mediating sense-data.

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    • 1.Illusions and hallucinations occur with identical causal-relational histories as veridical perceptions, challenging the claim that such contact grounds veridicality.
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    • 2.The neuroscientific evidence for internal neural mediation (predictive coding, top-down processing) suggests perception requires representational intermediaries after all.
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    • 3.McDowell's disjunctivism makes veridical and non-veridical cases so epistemically different that we cannot justifiably trust any perception without prior verification.
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    • 1.Sense-data theories face the problem of explaining how mental intermediaries causally connect us to external objects without introducing skeptical gaps.
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    • 2.Both Gibson and McDowell reject representationalism's claim that perception is fundamentally about internal states, preserving realism about perceptual content.
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    • 3.Direct causal contact explains perceptual constancy and adaptation better than mediated models, since organisms track actual affordances and object properties.
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