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    The argument from illusion conflates the object of experi... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Sense-data are not material things or elements in the environment independent of the individual experiencer.

    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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    • 1.Illusion arguments assume the same relation obtains between perceiver and object in both veridical and illusory cases, which is empirically unfounded.
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    • 2.Disjunctivism correctly preserves the intuition that veridical perception directly presents mind-independent objects, not mere sense-data.
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    • 3.The conflation error explains why traditional theories posit problematic intermediaries like sense-impressions to account for illusions.
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    • 1.Disjunctivism struggles to explain how indistinguishable illusions and veridical perceptions can involve fundamentally different relational structures.
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    • 2.The 'conflation' diagnosis assumes disjunctivism's conclusion rather than demonstrating the illusion argument actually commits this error.
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    • 3.Even if perception and illusion differ relationally, this doesn't address whether both involve non-relational phenomenal properties requiring explanation.
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