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Post by Terrapin Station on Jun 2, 2017 10:09:49 GMT
It's not that there's always sense data and sometimes you're aware of it and sometimes not. It's that certain situations will produce illusions, say. Whether the illusion should be called "sense data" or not is another issue, but we can just bypass that. It's fine if we say that it's "sense data." I never said there's always sense data so I am not sure why youI saiD think that. What I meant was when I am looking at a straw submerged in water and it looks bent what is stopping me from seeing the world directly besides the illusion obviously. Well, the straw in the water example isn't an example where you're seeing things incorrectly first off. It's an objective fact, not dependent on perception, that from particular reference points, reflections of light waves from a transparent glass/liquid/straw system are such that the straw looks bent within the liquid compared to outside of the liquid. The misconception there is a theoretical misconception, it's not a perceptual problem. And that theoretical misconception is one where reference point property variance facts are taken out of the picture, and we conceptually interpret data to be telling us or not telling us "what the straw is really like from a reference point-free perspective." There are no reference point-free perspectives, though, and from particular perspectives, what the straw is really like in terms of light waves at that perspective is that it is bent below the water. |
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