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    Once a normative standard is admitted, the move to deflec... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The flux theorist can preserve the claim that all appearances are true by treating apparently false appearances as different appearances to different people rather than false appearances to the same person.

    Once a normative standard is admitted, the move to deflect false appearances onto distinct perceivers merely relocates rather than eliminates the problem of perceptual error.

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    • 1.Attributing errors to individual perceivers presupposes a standard of correctness that itself remains epistemically ungrounded and unexplained.
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    • 2.Without addressing why the standard exists and what makes it authoritative, we've merely hidden the original problem rather than solved it.
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    • 3.Multiplying explanations across different perceivers obscures the need to justify the normative framework doing the evaluating.
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    • 1.Distinguishing veridical from erroneous perceptions in different observers is a genuine advance—it explains variation without questioning the standard itself.
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    • 2.The problem of justifying normative standards is separate from the practical problem of accounting for perceptual disagreement among actual perceivers.
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    • 3.Relocating an error explanation may be legitimate progress even if foundational questions about standards remain philosophically open.
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