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    Perceptions are dictates of common sense. — Carmelics
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    Perceptions are dictates of common sense.

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    • 1.Perceptions are conceptions one cannot help but trust, given that they are produced by one's constitution.
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    • 2.Beliefs one cannot help but trust, given one's constitution, are dictates of common sense.
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    • 1.Perceptual experiences are subject to systematic illusions and hallucinations that rational inquiry can detect and correct.
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    • 2.What constitutional compulsion produces can be false, as color perception varies across species with incompatible results.
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    • 3.A genuine dictate of common sense must be universally held, but perceptual beliefs vary across individuals and cultures.
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    • 1.Hume demonstrated that perceptions are discrete impressions bearing no necessary connection to external objects or causes.
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    • 2.If perceptions carry no intrinsic warrant beyond their phenomenal character, constitutional compulsion cannot elevate them to epistemic authority.
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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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