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    It is not the case that Haptic perception of an object is truly perceptual, whereas tactual sensation on one's skin is not.

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    • 1.Tactual sensations on the skin carry spatial information about location, pressure distribution, and texture across a bodily surface.
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    • 2.If spatial content is the criterion for genuine perceptual experience, tactual sensations qualify on the same grounds as haptic perception.
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    • 3.The supporting argument's P3 is empirically false, collapsing the distinction it relies upon.
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    • 1.Husserl's analysis of the 'Doppelempfindung' shows that skin sensation presents both a felt object and a sensing body simultaneously, yielding intentional directedness toward the world.
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    • 2.Intentional directedness toward an external state of affairs is a sufficient condition for genuinely perceptual experience, not spatiality alone.
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    • 3.Therefore, tactual sensation meets the core phenomenological criterion for perception independent of whether it is spatial in the manner haptic object-perception is.
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    • 1.Truly perceptual experiences are spatial experiences.
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    • 2.Haptic experiences of objects are spatial.
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    • 3.Tactual sensations on the skin are not spatial.
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