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    Challenges→Positing sense-data to explain misrepresentation generates a regress: we would need further intermediaries to explain how sense-data themselves are perceived.

    The regress assumes each level requires identical explanatory machinery; but perception of sense-data might operate through different, non-representational mechanisms than object-perception.

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    Non-representational(as describing a way the mind might be 'more real')
    Not depending on mental images, symbols, or representations—instead, something that exists directly and concretely on its own.
    Regress(as used in epistemology and logic)
    An infinite chain of reasoning where each explanation requires another explanation, like asking 'why?' infinitely and never reaching a final answer.
    explanatory machinery(as used in philosophy of mind)
    The underlying system or method that makes something work or explains how something happens.
    object-perception(as used in philosophy of perception)
    How your mind perceives and recognizes actual things in the world (like a chair or person) as complete, unified objects rather than just scattered sensations.
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    (Hume's theory of ideas)
    Any mental activity that brings something before the mind; the basic unit of mental life in Hume's theory of ideas.
    sense-data(Argument from illusion in philosophy of perception)
    The objects experienced in cases of illusion — things that have the features the perceiver takes themselves to be experiencing, but which are not material things or elements in the environment independent of the individual experiencer.

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