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    Perceptions are beliefs that cannot be given up given one... — Carmelics
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    Perceptions are beliefs that cannot be given up given one's constitution.

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    • 1.When one conceives of an object in a particular way merely because it is in one's nature to do so, the conception is non-optional and unavoidable.
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    • 2.Conviction in the accuracy of a conception is bestowed just when the conception comes about because of one's nature or constitution.
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    • 3.What is unavoidable and non-optional cannot be given up.
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    • 1.Perceptual beliefs can be revised through empirical feedback, as when a straight stick appears bent in water yet we judge it straight upon reflection.
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    • 2.If a belief-type admits of rational revision under any conditions, it cannot be constitutionally irrevocable in Reid's strong sense.
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    • 3.Müller-Lyer illusion cases show that subjects persistently perceive unequal lines as equal despite firmly held contrary beliefs, suggesting perception and belief are dissociable.
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    • 1.Sellars argues in 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind' that perceptual states have propositional content only within a web of inferential commitments, making them revisable by coherentist norms.
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    • 2.If perceptual content is holistically constrained by background theory, as Quine's underdetermination thesis implies, then no single perceptual belief is immune to revision given sufficient theoretical pressure.
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    Placing my hand on a table, my tactile sensation immediately leads my mind to a conception or apprehension that I am touching a hard object. When does one's conception of an object as having a particular quality amount to a perception, a conception accompanied by a conviction of its accuracy? The answer is: when one comes to have that conception because one has encountered a natural sign which leads one to the conception, and that natural sign leads one to the conception merely because of one's
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