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    Sensa do not really exist; they only create the illusion of existence

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    • 1.Sensa arise from a confusion between a perception (which is part of the percipient and therefore mental or spiritual) and the object of that perception (the perceptum)
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    • 2.A perceptum as a sensum cannot have parts within parts to infinity
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    • 3.What genuinely exists has no simple parts, and sensa fail this condition
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    • 1.Sense-data (sensa) serve as the epistemological foundation of perceptual knowledge in Russell's early realism and Moore's refutation of idealism.
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    • 2.If sensa are illusory, the regress of what grounds perceptual justification leads to skepticism Russell himself found unacceptable.
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    • 3.An entity that systematically and causally structures experience cannot be dismissed as a mere illusion without collapsing the distinction between veridical and hallucinatory perception.
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    • 1.The claim that sensa lack genuine existence conflates ontological dependence on a mind with ontological non-existence, a distinction Chisholm and later intentionalists carefully preserve.
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    • 2.Adverbial theories of sensation (Sellars, Chisholm) show that even denying sense-data as objects does not entail those sensory episodes are illusory—they remain real mental events with causal efficacy.
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    The existence of matter can also not be inferred on the basis of the prima facie existence of what I perceive “by means of the sense organs of our bodies”, i.e., of what he calls “sensa” (NE §373), because it is erroneous to believe that matter as the presumed outside cause of a sensum has the same qualities as a sensum and thus has to exist (NE §365). He conjectures that if there are outside causes of sensa they must be substances which are “of a spiritual nature” (NE §371). When it comes to (c
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