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    It is not the case that Hume's inference that we immediately perceive only ideas or representations depends on ideas lacking the relational characteristics that visible figures have

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    • 1.Hume reasons from the claim that mind-independent tables are not immediate objects of awareness to the conclusion that we immediately perceive only ideas or representations
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    • 2.This reasoning is only possible because ideas lack the relational characteristics between physical objects and perceivers that visible figures possess
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    • 1.Visible figures, as Reid demonstrates, are constitutively relational: they are defined by the angle subtended between object and perceiver.
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    • 2.Humean ideas, by contrast, are intrinsic representational items whose content is fixed independently of any particular perceiver-object spatial relation.
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    • 3.Any entity whose existence and character are perceiver-relative cannot be reduced to a mind-internal representation whose properties are intrinsic.
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    • 1.Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology establishes that perceptual content is inherently perspectival, shaped by the embodied subject's position relative to the world.
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    • 2.If perceptual content is irreducibly perspectival, then the Humean model of ideas as discrete inner representations fails to capture the relational structure perception actually exhibits.
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    • 3.The failure to capture this relational structure is precisely what forces Hume to treat the immediate object of perception as a non-relational mental particular, confirming Reid's diagnosis.
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