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McGrath (forthcoming).
Stefanucci and Proffitt (2009).
Kunda (1990).
This type of case is discussed in Silins and Siegel (forthcoming), and Siegel (forthcoming).
Qualia are supposed to be aspects of experience that characterize our experience, independently of how the external world seems to us. But exactly analogous points hold for experiences construed as relations to sense-data, where these are mental objects that we perceive, and thereby perceive the external objects that cause them.
Eberhardt (2004) provides experimental evidence that something this association is widespread.
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Thanks to Stew Cohen, Jennifer Gottlieb, Nicholas Silins, Declan Smithies, Scott Sturgeon, and especially Matthew McGrath for discussion.
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Siegel, S. Reply to Fumerton, Huemer, and McGrath. Philos Stud 162, 749–757 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-012-0057-7
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