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    It is not the case that We often form false judgements about the true nature of the movements experienced by the senses

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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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    • 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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