Saturday, 24 August 2013

Thought 5: A Brief Anatomy of Perception


(1) 

There are things.

(2) 

It is inherent in the 
fact of a thing to be 
perceptible (not through
sensory data alone).

(3) 

We perceive 
the perceptible.

(4) 

What we perceive is conditioned 
by our perceiving faculties.

(5) 

Alterations in our perceiving faculties 
(e.g. I take my glasses off) 
may alter what we perceive 
of the perceptible 
(e.g. everything 
is blurry).

(6) 

What is perceptible is
regardless of whether or not 
it is in fact perceived.

(7) 

With the alterations 
of statement (5) 
we may only say that 
what we perceive 
of the perceptible(s) 
has changed, 
not the things whose 
perceptibility is 
perceived.

(8) 

As such, we recognize that 
perceptibles are
independently of how 
we perceive them.

(9) 

We acknowledge that perceptibles 
are because we perceive them and, 
following (2), it is inherent in 
the fact of a thing to be perceptible.