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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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