Noise and perceptual indiscriminability

Mind 114 (455):481-508 (2005)
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Abstract

Perception represents colours inexactly. This inexactness results from phenomenally manifest noise, and results in apparent violations of the transitivity of perceptual indiscriminability. Whether these violations are genuine depends on what is meant by 'transitivity of perceptual indiscriminability'

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