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    Neither the transmission-of-forms theory nor the direct pick-up theory can adequately account for perceptual error

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    • 1.Perceptual error occurs when what is perceived does not match the actual properties of the external object
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    • 2.The transmission-of-forms theory requires that the perceived form exist in the external object, which it does not in cases of perceptual error
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    • 3.The direct pick-up theory requires that the objective properties being perceived exist in the external object, which they do not in cases of perceptual error
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    • 1.Aristotle's transmission-of-forms theory already accounts for error by distinguishing proper sensibles (infallible) from common and incidental sensibles (fallible).
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    • 2.Perceptual error on Aristotle's account arises not from the transmission mechanism failing, but from higher-order judgment misattributing incidental sensibles to objects.
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    • 3.Therefore the transmission-of-forms theory has internal resources to explain error without abandoning the core reception-of-form mechanism.
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    • 1.Gibson's direct pick-up theory explicitly accommodates error through misresonance: the perceptual system attuned to affordances can be ecologically miscalibrated without positing any representational intermediary.
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    • 2.The supporting argument's P3 assumes direct pick-up requires successful veridicality, but Gibson treats illusions as failures of attunement within a dynamic organism-environment system, not as contradictions of the theory's core commitments.
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    Both theories suffer from an apparent inability to handle error. Science frequently teaches us that things are not in reality the way they appear to the senses. The sun, for example, perceptually appears as a small disk rather than the large sphere that it is (Descartes 1641). This perceptual experience cannot involve either the transmission of forms (since the sun doesn’t have those forms), or the “direct pick-up” of objective properties (again, those properties aren’t there to pick up). Nor co
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