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    We must distinguish between perceiving that p (which entails p is true) and perceptual seemings (where p might be false)

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    • 1.Perceptual experience is fallible
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    • 2.The world is not always as it appears to us in our perceptual experiences
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    • 3.We need a way of referring to perceptual experiences that allows for the possibility of the perceived content being false
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    • 1.J.J. Gibson's ecological psychology shows perception is a direct pickup of affordances, making the seeming/perceiving distinction theoretically idle.
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    • 2.If perception is constitutively relational—world-involving rather than screen-like—there is no inner 'seeming' layer that could systematically diverge from the world.
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    • 3.The distinction smuggles in a Cartesian veil-of-perception model that disjunctivists like McDowell and Hinton have argued conflates veridical perception with mere appearance.
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    • 1.Wilfrid Sellars' critique of the Myth of the Given entails that 'perceptual seemings' cannot serve as epistemic foundations without already presupposing conceptual, hence fallible, commitments.
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    • 2.If seemings are pre-conceptual, they lack the propositional form needed to bear truth-values; if they are conceptual, they are already subject to the same fallibility as perceiving-that, collapsing the distinction.
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    Our perceptual faculties include at least our five senses: sight, touch, hearing, smelling, and tasting. We must distinguish between an experience that can be classified as perceiving that p (for example, seeing that there is coffee in the cup and tasting that it is sweet), which entails that p is true, and a perceptual experience in which it seems to us as though p, but where p might be false. Let us refer to this latter kind of experience as perceptual seemings. The reason for making this dist
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