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The greater human mystery is not that this love is present, but that it is hidden, veiled from our perception.
The proponent of the naturalistic explanation as a defeater owes us some reason to believe that his or her argument is not just another skeptical argument from the veil of perception.
(See Mackie's perceptive discussion of the veil of perception problem, in Problems from Locke, pp. 51 through 67).
Alternatively, Jonathan Bennett called it "the veil of perception" to emphasize that 'seeing' the ideas prevents us from seeing the external world.
This criticism of Locke's account of language parallels the "veil of perception" critique of his account of perception and suggests that Locke is not distinguishing the meaning of a word from its reference.
Understood this way, ideas form what scholars have referred to as a "veil of perception".
The direct realist reading rejects the notion of a veil of perception (Yolton 1984, Nadler 1989).
(The "veil of perception" phrasing has its origin in Bennett 1971).
Like the more familiar veil of perception created by the representational role of ideas (see 3.1 The Way of Ideas and Representational Theories of Perception ), there is also a veil of conception.
Yet Berkeley attributed the veil of perception interpretation of the representational theory of perception to Locke as have many later commentators including Bennett.
Xu Lei's photographs of blue gauze curtains covering photographs of ancient statuary and buildings meditate on photography, history and the veils of perception.
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