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    It is not the case that Sense-data are not material things or elements in the environment independent of the individual experiencer.

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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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    • 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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