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    It is not the case that J.L. Austin demonstrated that 'looks,' 'seems,' and 'appears' locutions do not entail an inner sense-datum object, only a qualified perceptual claim about the world.

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    • 1.Austin conflates linguistic meaning with metaphysical claims about what perception actually involves—usage doesn't settle ontology.
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    • 2.Hallucinations and illusions create epistemic scenarios where 'looks' locutions apply but no qualified world-claim can be defended.
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    • 3.Austin's argument dismisses rather than refutes internalist accounts of how perceptual seeming might still require representational content.
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    • 1.Austin's ordinary language analysis shows 'seems' reports how objects appear relative to conditions, not private mental objects.
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    • 2.Sense-datum theory creates an epistemological gap between perception and world that linguistic analysis of actual usage dissolves.
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    • 3.When we say 'it looks red,' we make a qualified claim about the object itself under specific perceptual circumstances, not about a datum.
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