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Description: An article by Romane Clark defending the existence of primitive sensuous judgments
Evidently, there is no seeing without having some sense impressions; in the standard case, we see that an object is colored by having an impression of its color. But how, in general, do perceptions depend upon sense impressions? How, in general, do sense impressions relate to, or figure in, the sensuous judgments we make? From critics of an abstractionist account of concept formation there have come a range of answers to these questions. The answers largely have been unchallenged. Surprisingly, they all assert that sense impressions play no conceptual role in perception at all. Apart from necessary fussing with the difficult concept of 'conceptual role', the point has been put variously in theses of varying strength. Professor Aune, for example, has suggested that occurrences of sense impressions are adventitious. Aune wrote:
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