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    Illusion cases involve misperception of actual material t... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→In illusion cases, the perceiver directly experiences sense-data rather than material things.

    Illusion cases involve misperception of actual material things, not substitution of a different object of experience.

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    • 1.In illusions, we perceive properties of objects that actually exist (e.g., a bent stick in water), just with distorted qualities.
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    • 2.The causal chain in illusions traces back to a real material object affecting our sensory apparatus, unlike hallucinations.
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    • 3.Illusions are correctable by acquiring better information about the same object, suggesting continuity of reference.
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    • 1.The phenomenal content we experience in illusions (apparent redness, shape) is causally independent of the actual object's properties.
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    • 2.If illusions involve direct contact with material things, we must explain why perceptual experience doesn't match the object itself.
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    • 3.Sense-data theories consistently explain illusions by positing experiential objects distinct from external material things.
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