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    In illusion cases, the perceiver directly experiences sen... — Carmelics
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    In illusion cases, the perceiver directly experiences sense-data rather than material things.

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    • 1.Sense-data are not material things.
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    • 2.In illusion cases, the perceiver experiences sense-data.
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    • 3.Experiencing sense-data is distinct from experiencing material things.
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    • 1.Illusion cases involve misperception of actual material things, not substitution of a different object of experience.
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    • 2.The bent-stick illusion presents a real stick under distorting conditions, so the stick itself remains the direct perceptual object.
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    • 3.Positing sense-data as intermediary objects commits a category error by treating adverbial qualities of experience as noun-like entities.
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    • 1.The argument from illusion illegitimately generalizes from cases of misrepresentation to conclusions about the fundamental nature of all perceptual objects.
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    • 2.Austin demonstrated that 'directly perceive' is systematically misused in sense-datum theory, lacking any stable contrastive meaning.
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    Central to those considerations are those organized by versions of what is known as the argument from illusion ((6) above).[21] The version of the argument that Austin criticizes can be reconstructed as follows. (i) There are cases of illusion in which we have a sensory experience as of seeing something of some sort with specific features but in which nothing has those specific features. This might be because, although we experience something of the sort in question, the thing we experience la
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