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    It is not the case that The flux theory's individuation of perceivers by perception-events is required to sustain the thesis that knowledge is perception.

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    • 1.Protagorean relativism can sustain 'all appearances are true' by relativizing truth to the individual persisting subject, not to momentary perception-events.
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    • 2.If 'man is the measure' is indexed to enduring persons, conflicting appearances are merely relativized to the same subject at different times, not rendered contradictory.
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    • 3.The flux theory's individuation by perception-events is therefore one strategy among several, not a necessary condition for the Protagorean thesis.
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    • 1.Aristotle's critique in Metaphysics Gamma shows that radical flux destroys the identity conditions needed for any predication, including the predication 'X perceives Y'.
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    • 2.If the perceiver is wholly dissolved into discrete perception-events, the concept of perception itself—which requires a subject who perceives—becomes incoherent.
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    • 3.The flux theory thus undermines the very perceptual relation it is invoked to protect, making it self-defeating as a foundation for 'knowledge is perception'.
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    • 1.The definition of knowledge as perception entails that all appearances are true.
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    • 2.Preserving the claim that all appearances are true requires that conflicting appearances (e.g., dream vs. waking) not be assigned to the same perceiver.
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    • 3.Individuating the same perceiver by the same combination of perception and perceiving (rather than by a persisting subject) prevents the assignment of conflicting appearances to a single perceiver.
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