Philosophy A-Level
Hallucination
What Hallucination means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Hallucination
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A case in which someone has a perceptual experience qualitatively indistinguishable from a genuine perception, yet no corresponding object is present.
Topics that use Hallucination
- Perception as a source of knowledge (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Alleged inference
- Argument from hallucination
- Argument from illusion
- Best explanation reasoning
- Direct realism
- Disjunctivism
- Dreams versus waking experience
- Idealism
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