How I would put it is, the straight and the bent stick *share* the same appearance. If X looks like Y, then Y looks like X, it goes both ways. I might...
While I'm not super comfortable speculating on the psychology behind belief in illusions, I think it's a fact people prefer to fix their beliefs and d...
As I said in the OP I don't agree with this, I am skeptical of phenomenal properties and argue that there is no "appearance of the phenomenal" (as opp...
But the thing is the image does not "contradict what we know". To those who understand how light travels through water, the image is a straightforward...
Similar things can be said of for example flat earth, the appearance of the horizon is obviously consistent with a round earth but even some who don't...
The same idea would apply to our sense of time if that too is to be considered a form of perception (which I believe is reasonable now that you made m...
The idea that a rainbow "appears to be an object" rather than a refraction of light is a good example of what I mean by a privileged interpretation. I...
Yes, if introspection is to be likened to a sense it must detect something. The question is whether phenomenal properties are a part of this something...
As I said in the OP I am skeptical of phenomenal properties, my main point is that skepticism should not be equated with Illusionism. Skepticism of ph...
I am thinking of illusion in that first sense, as a "deceiving appearance", and yes by Illusionism I was referring to the eliminative theory or at lea...
What I want is to single out the process prior to anything resembling the generation of a proposition (i.e. something that can be true/false), perhaps...
While it may be that it's not human nature to perceive without also interpreting, I think the two are distinct. I would say a camera is an example of ...
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