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    It is not the case that Neither the transmission-of-forms theory nor the direct pick-up theory can adequately account for 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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    • 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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