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    Sense-data are not material things or elements in the env... — Carmelics
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    Sense-data are not material things or elements in the environment independent of the individual experiencer.

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    • 1.Cases in which sense-data are experienced include cases in which no material things of the sort in question, or with the features in question, are present.
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    • 2.Sense-data are whatever is experienced in illusion cases.
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    • 1.Sense-data may be relational entities constituted by both the perceiver and the environment, as argued by Price in 'Perception' (1932).
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    • 2.A relational entity partly dependent on environmental conditions is not fully mind-dependent, undermining the sharp independence/dependence dichotomy.
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    • 3.If sense-data are partially constituted by physical surfaces or light (as in naive realist-adjacent views), they retain material grounding even in illusion cases.
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    • 1.The argument from illusion conflates the object of experience with the intrinsic nature of that object, as Hinton and later Fish argue in disjunctivist accounts.
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    • 2.If veridical and illusory experiences are fundamentally different in kind, sense-data need not be posited as a uniform non-material class covering both cases.
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    • 3.Rejecting the common-kind assumption dissolves the inference that sense-data in illusions reveal the non-material nature of all perceptual objects.
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    Central to those considerations are those organized by versions of what is known as the argument from illusion ((6) above).[21] The version of the argument that Austin criticizes can be reconstructed as follows. (i) There are cases of illusion in which we have a sensory experience as of seeing something of some sort with specific features but in which nothing has those specific features. This might be because, although we experience something of the sort in question, the thing we experience la
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