Philosophy A-Level
Rejection of perceptual intermediaries
What Rejection of perceptual intermediaries means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The denial that sense-data or representations are inserted between the perceiver and the object, so awareness reaches the world itself.
Topics that use Rejection of perceptual intermediaries
- Perception as a source of knowledge (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Alleged inference
- Argument from hallucination
- Argument from illusion
- Best explanation reasoning
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- Disjunctivism
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- Hallucination
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