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    It is not the case that In cases of illusion, there must be something experienced that has the features the perceiver takes themselves to be experiencing, and these experiential objects are called sense-data.

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    • 1.In illusion cases, the perceiver misrepresents an actual physical object—the stick in water is still experienced, just distorted.
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    • 2.A misrepresentation of a real object requires no intermediary sense-datum; the intentional content of the experience can simply be false.
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    • 3.Positing sense-data to explain misrepresentation generates a regress: we would need further intermediaries to explain how sense-data themselves are perceived.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The inference from 'x appears F' to 'there is an object that is F' commits the sense-datum fallacy identified by Chisholm and later Austin himself.
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    • 2.Adverbial theorists like Roderick Chisholm and George Pitcher show 'experiencing redly' describes a mode of perceiving, not a red object experienced.
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    • 1.There are cases of illusion in which a perceiver has a sensory experience as of seeing something with specific features, but nothing in the environment has those specific features.
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    • 2.In those cases of illusion, something must be experienced that accounts for the apparent features.
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