The Mystery of Property F
March 10, 2024•339 words
A few years ago when I had first been introduced to philosophy, I was reading about illusions as an argument against naïve realism. The author presented the argument as a simple one: in illusions, someone perceives some object having some property 'F', although it does not "really" have this property. Therefore, that person must be perceiving the object indirectly.
The argument is a fairly convincing one, and certainly raises a big enough issue to make the naïve realist to reconsider their pos...
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