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The experimental evidence adduced for indirect perception has raised philosophical discussion of the nature of human perception to a new level.
From this observation, theorists of indirect perception who are inclined toward skepticism conclude that one cannot be certain that the sensation one experiences in seeing a particular object represents the object as it really is.
Citing this account, proponents of indirect perception point out that every event in such a causal sequence effects some modification of the input it receives from the preceding event.
Representative realism is thus a theory of indirect perception, because it holds that human observers are directly aware of sense-data, and only indirectly aware of the physical objects that cause these data in the brain.
Avrum Stroll, for example, has argued that the views of skeptics such as Mates, as well those of many other modern proponents of indirect perception, rest on a conceptual mistake: the failure to distinguish between scientific and philosophical accounts of the connection between sense experience and objects in the external world.
The case of sound perception shows that there can be indirect perception without mental deputies.
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"For me to be part of a lobbying firm would detract from that, and raise either clear or indirect perceptions that I would never want to saddle Mr. Ferrer with".
The new approaches in effect revived indirect theories of perception that emphasized the subjective experience of the observer.
Various strands of indirect realism in perception would make this view mandatory.
It looks on the face of it, therefore, that presentists are committed to the indirect theory of perception.
Complicating an understanding of such passages is that Descartes scholarship is divided on whether to attribute to him some version of an indirect theory of perception, or instead some version of a direct theory.
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