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    Supports→The flux theorist can preserve the claim that all appearances are true by treating apparently false appearances as different appearances to different people rather than false appearances to the same person.

    If each perception event constitutes a distinct perceiver, then dream appearances and waking appearances are appearances to numerically distinct perceivers, not the same perceiver.

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    Perceiver(as used in philosophy of perception)
    A person or being that experiences something through their senses, like hearing a sound or seeing a color.
    dream appearances(contrasted with real perceptions to question if they're experienced by the same person)
    The sights, sounds, and sensations that seem real while you're dreaming, even though they're happening in your mind.
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    (Used to characterize the parts of the Form that must exist separately in each participant)
    Being distinct in the sense of being different individual tokens, not merely different in kind or quality.
    perception event(used to describe individual experiences of sensing the world)
    A single moment or instance when you experience something through your senses, like seeing a color or hearing a sound.
    waking appearances(contrasted with dreams to question the nature of perception)
    The things you actually see and experience while awake and conscious in the real world.

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    At 157c–160c Socrates states a first objection to the flux theory. This asks how the flux theorist is to distinguish false (deceptive) appearances such as dreams from the true (undeceptive) appearances of the waking world. The flux theorist’s answer is that such appearances should not be described as ‘true’ and ‘false’ appearances to the same person. Rather they should be described as different appearances to different people. According to the flux theorist, we have the same person if and only i

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