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“I see a bird over there”. If this is true, there is a bird over there. If not true I, at most, seemed to see or thought I saw a bird over there. In both cases I had a sensation, I sensed something, but only in the first case did I have a perception, did I perceive something. That is: this is both a useful and a common way of distinguishing between “sensation” and “perception”.
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von Wright, G. H. (1984), Truth, Knowledge, and Modality. Oxford, Basil Blackwell.
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von Wright, G.H. (1998). Sensations and Perceptions. In: In the Shadow of Descartes. Synthese Library, vol 272. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9034-1_2
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