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    Supports→Hume's inference that we immediately perceive only ideas or representations depends on ideas lacking the relational characteristics that visible figures have

    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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    Key Terms

    Discrete inner representations(as used in philosophy of mind)
    Separate, individual mental pictures or symbols inside your mind that stand for things in the world—like having isolated snapshots in your head.
    Humean model(as used in philosophy of mind and history of philosophy)
    A theory about the mind developed by philosopher David Hume, who argued that our thoughts are made of small mental pictures or copies of what we've sensed, strung together like building blocks.
    Ideas (in Humean philosophy)(as used in Hume's philosophy of mind)
    In Hume's theory, the faint mental copies or images in your mind that represent things you've experienced—basically, memories and imagination.
    Irreducibly perspectival(describing what first-person and present-time beliefs are)
    Something that cannot be understood completely without knowing whose viewpoint or perspective it comes from; it's always tied to a particular person's point of view.

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    Perceptual content(describing what our senses tell us)
    The actual information or meaning that you get from your senses—what you see, hear, or feel and what it seems to represent about the world.
    relational structure(metaphysics)
    A system of connections and relationships between different things, rather than things existing completely independently.

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