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Aristotle’s Infallible Perception (2019)

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In the De Anima, Aristotle claims that the five senses are infallible about their proper objects. I contend that this claim means that sight is infallible about its proper object in its most specific form, i. e. sight is infallible about red or green and not merely about color in general. This robust claim is justified by Aristotle’s teleological principle that nature does nothing in vain. Additionally, drawing on Aristotle’s comparison of perception and one’s understanding of the essences, I defend a conception of the senses in which the structure of their contents is simple rather than predicative and show how this coheres better with the rest of my interpretation.

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Authors & Contributors
Cavarra, Berenice
A. Joan Saab
Cilione, Marco
Marmodoro, Anna
Wolff, Francis
Szymanski, Ileana Fernanda
Concepts
Senses and sensation; perception
Philosophy
Natural philosophy
Color
Psychology
Vision
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Places
Greece
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