Canadian Journal of Philosophy 5 (September):41-55 (1975)
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In this paper I wish to propose and defend a form of the Representative Theory of Perception. According to this version of the theory, when a subject perceives some object x to be in a state P1 he does so by being aware of some modfication M1 of some object E. The subject's way of perceiving any one of a range of objects x,y,z, … is that of being aware of some modification of E. It will be a necessary condition of someone's perceiving x to have property P1 that E be modified in some way. And in order for the modifications of E to be representations, a given property P1 will need to be causally related, characteristically, to one or more specific modifications, M1,M2, … Mn, of E. symbolized by ‘X'.)
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| Keywords | Belief Epistemology Perception Representation |
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| ISBN(s) | 0045-5091 |
| DOI | 10.1080/00455091.1975.10716096 |
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