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(a) Veridical Perception: Balanced bottom-up and top-down contributions from all levels of the hierarchy.
On this view, there is, then, a common mental core to veridical perception and hallucination.
(In veridical perception, these properties are locally instantiated; in illusion and hallucination, they are not).
For example, suppose one is now having a veridical perception of a snow covered churchyard.
These are cases of veridical perception with an obvious admixture or tinge of memory.
Take a veridical perception of a white snow covered churchyard for what it is.
The indistinguishability of hallucination from veridical perception is grounded in the similarity of their effects.
Disjunctivists deny that our accounts of veridical perception should be constrained in this way.
For in veridical perception the principle of intentionality could be preserved without appealing to ideas.
Perceptual "errors" can provide a selective advantage if they offer survival benefits that exceed those obtained from veridical perception.
A hallucination of an x is a mental state that, whilst not being a veridical perception of an x, nevertheless comes to have effects that are sufficiently similar to those a veridical perception would have had.
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