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    Reid's direct realism holds that sensory qualities are or... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Sensory ideas are not misrepresentations of qualities in objects, but are so obscure and confused that we cannot determine their representational content from their phenomenal character alone.

    Reid's direct realism holds that sensory qualities are original perceptions of mind-independent properties, not obscure proxies requiring theoretical mediation to interpret.

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    • 1.We directly perceive color, shape, and texture without inferring them from neural signals or sense-data intermediaries.
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    • 2.Positing theoretical intermediaries between perception and reality creates unsolvable skeptical problems about their accuracy.
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    • 3.Children and animals successfully navigate environments by directly grasping perceptual properties without conscious theoretical mediation.
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    • 1.Perceptual illusions and hallucinations show sensory qualities can present without corresponding mind-independent properties.
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    • 2.The causal chain from objects through neural processing to experience suggests perception involves representational mediation, not direct access.
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    • 3.Color perception varies across species and individuals based on neural differences, indicating properties aren't directly perceived but constructed.
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