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In each of these examples, according to defenders of sense-data theory, there is something of which one is "directly" aware, meaning that one's awareness of it is immediate and does not depend on any inference or judgment.
When one is thinking that some given experience or item x is G, and one is directly aware of the uncertain or not-fully-transparent character of one's awareness, this can make it merely probable for one that x is G.
These are things of which each person is directly aware, and there is no special "problem" about their existence.
In each case, according to sense-data theorists, there is something of which one is directly aware, and that something is the sense-datum.
Even if a sense experience is caused by a defective sense organ, it remains true that one is directly aware of the content of the sensation.
When one has the sensation of seeing a round object, for example, one is directly aware of the roundness, even if the thing one is seeing is not really round.
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Plausible doxastic theories will likely stipulate that one cannot have an appropriate meta-belief or state of awareness without being directly aware of the reason in question, in order to avoid counting meta-beliefs such as that of Ezekiel's, in the example discussed above, as sufficient to establish basing relations.
On the face of it the Extensional approach is the more natural way for a realist to go: the most obvious and straightforward explanation of how we can be directly aware of change and persistence is to hold that our direct awareness can span an interval of ordinary time.
And millions of people who will benefit from that soul-draining work – many of whom may never be directly aware of it.
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.
We should be careful to distinguish not being (directly) aware of the wall from being (directly) aware of something which is not the wall.
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