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    The immediate objects of outer sense are spatial appearan... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Problematic idealism — the view that the existence of objects outside us in space is doubtful and indemonstrable — is false.

    The immediate objects of outer sense are spatial appearances whose existence is given with the act of sensory intuition itself, not inferred from it.

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    • 1.Sensory intuition presents objects directly without mediation; inferential knowledge requires prior conceptual processing absent in immediate sensation.
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    • 2.Spatial properties (extension, location, distance) are phenomenologically given within the sensory act itself, not constructed afterward.
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    • 3.If spatial appearances required inference, we could experience sensation without space—yet spatial structure seems constitutive of outer sense, not derivative.
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    • 1.Brain damage and sensory disorders show spatial perception depends on neural processing; appearances depend on inference from neural signals, not direct givenness.
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    • 2.Optical illusions reveal spatial appearances don't match objective reality; this gap suggests inference and interpretation, not immediate existence-givenness.
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    • 3.The distinction between 'given' and 'inferred' cannot be empirically verified; claims about immediate givenness rest on introspection, not observable evidence.
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