- May 2024
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instantiated
If they occur in some particular thing
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Naive Realism
Objects of perception are ordinary, material, mind-independent objects
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distinction between degrees of weak veridicality.
There are no degrees of strong veridicality
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and o’s looking F is due to o’s F-ness, that is, not to any irregular intervention.
Some kind of causal account here?
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Completely successful experiences
Things are exactly as they seem
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of the things seen
i.e. they correspond to the truth of the objects seen actually being in the state of affairs seen - simply veridical means corresponds to the truth, but not of the objects 'seen' per se - there is a lack of directness
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token
At a specific time, in a specific place - you can't speak of it elsewhere
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veridical
correspond to truth
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there is any need to individuate experiences
Individuating means separating out from a kind - e.g. if there is no determinate process for working out how many Xs there are somewhere at some time, X cannot be individuated
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classical sense-datum theory faces the challenge of making sense of the notion of mental space to house sense-data, where mental space is distinct from the space in which our bodies and other external bodies are found
This one is important
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token
What is a token experience
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Semantic objection: No actual uses of “looks” (or “looks F”) and its cognates in ordinary English exclusively track what is presented in experience.
e.g. looks like a lemon will never exclusively track the experience of lemons
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A version of premise (ii) with ‘iff’ would be true only given the assumption that what an experience E presents as being the case is exhausted by E’s presenting certain properties as instantiated.
Things are as E presents them only if F is instantiated -> Things are as E presents them if & only if F is instantiated
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than it is in the original case
What does this mean??
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Amazing Coincidence: Your experience is just as it is now, from your point of view, but you are hallucinating, and the scene before your eyes is nonetheless exactly as presented in your hallucination.
Doesn't specifically refer to airport here
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it is indiscriminable from
Doesn't actually have to be perceiving something
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