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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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