Concepts in Perception

Analysis 48 (3):150-153 (1988)
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I can agree with much of what D.H. Mellor says in his response to my paper ('Crane's Waterfall Illusion'). I can agree that perception in some sense 'aims' at truth, that its function 'is to tell us how the world truly is'...

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Tim Crane
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Tacit knowledge and the structure of thought and language.Martin Davies - 1986 - In Charles Travis (ed.), Meaning and interpretation. New York, NY, USA: Blackwell.

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