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    What is experienced in an illusion is not identical with ... — Carmelics
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    What is experienced in an illusion is not identical with the physical object (e.g., the stick), but rather sense-data

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    • 1.An illusion (e.g., a bent-looking stick) involves a distinctive sensory experience
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    • 2.The distinctive sensory experience is apt to give rise to an erroneous perceptual judgment (e.g., that the stick is bent)
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    • 3.The erroneous perceptual judgment can be explained as accurately representing features presented in the sensory experience (i.e., bent-ness)
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    • 1.A perceptual experience can misrepresent a physical object without requiring a numerically distinct intermediary object that possesses the misrepresented properties.
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    • 2.The argument from illusion commits a 'phenomenal principle' fallacy: from 'x appears F' it does not follow that 'there is something that is F being experienced'.
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    • 3.Austin demonstrated that 'looks bent' is a relational, context-sensitive predicate that characterizes how the stick appears, not a property instantiated by a separate sense-datum.
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    • 1.Adverbialist accounts (Sellars, Chisholm) analyze illusory experience as being-appeared-to-bently, describing a mode of experiencing rather than an object with bent properties.
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    • 2.Positing sense-data as objects of perception generates a vicious regress: if bent-appearance requires a bent sense-datum, veridical perception of the sense-datum itself demands further explanation.
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    The distinction between sensory perception and judgmental acumen enables Austin to distinguish between central cases of illusion and central cases of delusion, and also to sketch explanations of what is going on in those cases that do not make appeal to sense-data. Austin takes the defender of (i) and (ii) to argue as follows. First, consider an illusion, for example a stick that looks bent but really isn’t. Such an illusion has two key features. First, it clearly involves a distinctive sensory
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