Perceptual content and relations
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Bill Fish’s book Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion is a rich, sweeping, and radical development of naı̈ve realism. At the core of his view is the idea that in perception we are acquainted with our environment and that in virtue of being so acquainted our experience has phenomenal character. There are many radical ideas in the book, but perhaps the most radical is the idea that when we hallucinate, we have an experience that does not have phenomenal character: we mistake it to have phenomenal character and in virtue of this mistake a hallucination can be subjectively indistinguishable from a perception. The idea that hallucinations do not have phenomenal character is hard to swallow but as Fish argues, it follows from two ideas:
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