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    It is not the case that The flux theorist can preserve the claim that all appearances are true by treating apparently false appearances as different appearances to different people rather than false appearances to the same person.

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    • 1.A single biological organism retains memory and psychological continuity across perception events, constituting a persisting subject despite flux.
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    • 2.If the same organism later judges a prior appearance to have been misleading, this cross-temporal judgment cannot be dissolved by stipulating numerically distinct perceivers.
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    • 3.The flux theorist's individuation of perceivers is ad hoc unless independently motivated, since it is introduced precisely to block falsity rather than to describe experience.
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    • 1.Protagoras himself distinguished better and worse appearances in the Theaetetus, conceding the wise physician produces superior perceptual states in the sick patient.
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    • 2.If some appearances are better than others for the same organism, a normative standard of correctness is implicitly invoked that is incompatible with strict relativism about truth.
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    • 3.Once a normative standard is admitted, the move to deflect false appearances onto distinct perceivers merely relocates rather than eliminates the problem of perceptual error.
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    • 1.Dreams and waking perceptions appear to conflict, suggesting some appearances are false.
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    • 2.According to the flux theory, a perceiver is individuated by a specific combination of a perception and a perceiving.
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    • 3.If each perception event constitutes a distinct perceiver, then dream appearances and waking appearances are appearances to numerically distinct perceivers, not the same perceiver.
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