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    It is not the case that Reid's direct realism holds that perception involves non-inferential, immediate apprehension of external objects and their primary qualities via natural signs.

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    • 1.Sensory illusions and hallucinations show perception can seem direct while failing to access external objects at all.
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    • 2.Neurophysiology reveals complex causal chains between objects and conscious experience, undermining 'immediacy' claims.
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    • 3.Natural signs require prior learning and contextual interpretation, suggesting implicit inferential processing, not bare apprehension.
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    • 1.Perceptual experience has phenomenological directness that resists reduction to inference or representation.
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    • 2.Natural signs (like smoke signifying fire) operate non-inferentially through habitual association, not conscious reasoning.
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    • 3.Skepticism about direct object access leads to infinite regress of representations, making direct realism more parsimonious.
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