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    We often form false judgements about the true nature of the movements experienced by the senses

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    • 1.The senses serve a life-preserving role rather than a truth-revealing role regarding the nature of movements
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    • 2.The life-preserving function of the senses distorts or displaces their capacity to report the true nature of sensory movements
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    • 1.Sensory experience reliably tracks relational properties of movements (faster/slower, approach/recession) even if not their intrinsic nature.
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    • 2.Accurate relational perception of movement is sufficient for knowledge of physical causation, undermining the claim that senses systematically mislead about motion.
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    • 1.Reid's direct realism holds that perceptual judgements about external qualities are constitutively tied to the movements that cause them, not merely correlated.
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    • 2.If perceptual content is partly constituted by its causal movement-basis, there is no epistemic gap in which systematic false judgement about that basis could arise.
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    All conceptions conform to their object, and error consists in the will forming a judgement beyond conception. On this point, Desgabets’s account of error looks very much like that found in Descartes. However, in Desgabets, the domain of simple conception is less restricted, as is the proper function of the senses. The senses not only serve to determine what is good or harmful in life, but they also serve in knowing the nature of things. However, we often form false judgements of the true nature
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