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    The existence of a temptation toward error demonstrates h... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Premise (5) is not particularly controversial.

    The existence of a temptation toward error demonstrates human psychology, not facts about the external world being perceived.

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    • 1.Optical illusions persist despite knowing the truth, showing our perceptual errors reflect brain structure, not world properties.
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    • 2.Different species perceive identical environments differently, suggesting temptations to error originate in cognitive architecture.
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    • 3.We can be tempted toward error about imperceptible things (atoms, dark matter), indicating temptation arises from internal processing.
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    • 1.Some temptations toward error correlate with objective features—sugar tastes sweet because it triggers our reward systems, a fact about the world.
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    • 2.If temptations reveal only psychology, we cannot explain why certain illusions are systematic while others are rare or absent.
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    • 3.Confusing psychology with external facts requires that the external world causally shapes our temptations—making world-facts explanatorily fundamental.
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