Positing sense-data as objects of perception generates a vicious regress: if bent-appearance requires a bent sense-datum, veridical perception of the sense-datum itself demands further explanation.
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The objects experienced in cases of illusion — things that have the features the perceiver takes themselves to be experiencing, but which are not material things or elements in the environment independent of the individual experiencer.
vicious regress(Used by Ryle as a reductio against intellectualist accounts of intelligence)
An explanatory regress in which each explanatory step requires a further step of the same kind, preventing the explanation from ever being completed.