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    It is not the case that The statement 'I have a green sense datum' is not a report of an inner object but is a way of saying that one sees or seems to see something that really is green

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    • 1.Hallucinatory experiences involve qualitative character that cannot be cashed out in terms of external objects that may not exist.
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    • 2.If 'I have a green sense datum' merely reports seeming-to-see something green, it cannot account for cases where no external green object is causally involved.
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    • 3.C.D. Broad's argument from hallucination establishes that the intrinsic character of perceptual experience requires an internal object of awareness, not a relation to the world.
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    • 1.Frank Jackson's knowledge argument shows that Mary learns a new qualitative fact upon seeing red, irreducible to any relational or dispositional claim about external objects.
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    • 2.If sense-datum reports were merely disguised reports about external objects, acquiring color experience would add no new knowledge beyond physical facts already known.
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    • 1.Sense data are not part of the furniture of the world
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    • 2.Sense-datum language can be paraphrased into language about perceiving external objects
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