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    It is not the case that Objects of visual perception are intersubjectively accessible, meaning they can in principle be perceived by multiple subjects.

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    • 1.Perceptual experience is constituted by embodied, perspectival acts that are strictly first-personal and non-transferable across subjects.
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    • 2.What A perceives is always A's perspectival adumbration of the object, not the object as a neutral shared entity.
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    • 3.Therefore two subjects access numerically distinct perspectival appearances, undermining the claim that they perceive a single identical object.
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    • 1.Berkeley's idealism demonstrates that objects of perception are mind-dependent bundles of ideas, existing only within the perceiving mind.
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    • 2.If perceptual objects are strictly mind-dependent, then the 'same' object perceived by A and B are numerically distinct idea-collections with no mind-independent referent to share.
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    • 1.Two subjects, A and B, can perceive a numerically identical object.
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    • 2.Intersubjective accessibility requires only that an object can in principle be the object of another's perception.
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