"It's a positive start," says Mr Spence, "but there are still massive problems of perception.
At this point, this is about flaws of procedures — some possibly illegal, all very disturbing — and problems of perception.
"There's been surprising progress in the problems of perception, seeing, hearing and language," said Peter Lee, corporate vice president for Microsoft Research.
… "A chief executive who was thinking first about the long-term interests of her company would not have done this," Ms. Chatman said, adding that there are problems of perception in this case as well.
The problems of perception that plagued the government's pursuit of Mr. Drake, who claimed to be a whistle-blower exposing a costly National Security Agency boondoggle, may crop up again with Mr. Kim.
But advances in digital imagery -- in which photographers gain control over their images and can technologically manipulate them -- coupled with Mr. Hockney's enduring fascination with problems of perception and reality led one of Los Angeles's most famous painters not only to create photographic images but also to examine the uses of similar techniques by Renaissance artists and the old masters.
"A chief executive who was thinking first about the long-term interests of her company would not have done this," Ms. Chatman said, adding that there are problems of perception in this case as well: "She's one of a handful of top female business leaders.
See also BonJour's article "Epistemological Problems of Perception" and Crane's article "The Problem of Perception" in this encyclopedia, linked at the end of this article.
For discussion of how to supplement or defend such principles, see the entries on skepticism and epistemological problems of perception.
For literature on the epistemological problems of perception, see Alston 1999 and chapters 10 and 11 in Dancy 1985.
