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    It is not the case that Sense data and mental images are not part of the furniture of the world (i.e., they are not real entities in the physical world)

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    • 1.A yellow, green and purple striped mental image exists as a phenomenological report
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    • 2.There is nothing yellow, green and purple striped in the brain
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    • 3.Identity theorists must deny that sense data are real entities in order to maintain the identity theory
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