Ambiguous Figures and the Content of Experience
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Ambiguous Figures and the Content of Experience
Representationalism is the position that the phenomenal character of an experience is either identical with, or supervenes on, the content of that experience. Many representationalists hold that the relevant content of experience is nonconceptual. I propose a counter-example to this form of representationalism that arises from the phenomenon of Gestalt switching, which occurs when viewing ambig...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nous
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0029-4624,1468-0068
DOI: 10.1111/j.0029-4624.2006.00602.x