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    The fact that perception is required to detect a property... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Aesthetic properties are mind-dependent in some sense

    The fact that perception is required to detect a property does not entail that the property itself is constituted by or dependent on perception.

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    • 1.Microscopes detect bacteria invisible to unaided perception, yet bacteria existed before microscopes were invented.
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    • 2.A property's detection requires suitable conditions (light, instruments, observers) that needn't constitute what is detected.
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    • 3.Distinguishing between epistemic access and metaphysical constitution is logically coherent and widely accepted in philosophy.
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    • 1.All our knowledge of properties comes through perception; we cannot meaningfully separate detection from constitution.
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    • 2.Properties manifest only through relational interactions with perceivers; isolation from perception makes them conceptually empty.
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