Perceptual Experiences

The contention is made that having a perceptual experience is a kind of epistemic activity depending on sensation and presupposing understanding. The statement is then made that what we experience depends upon what we know or at least believe.

An experience that is perceptual is an experience involving conscious observation that produces a mental image. Such an image is produced by physical sensation--touch, sight, hearing, smell, taste, or a combination of two or more at one time.

An experience is an episode or instance of a given phenomena. In this case, the experience is perceptual and depends first on sensation. It is identified as an epistemic activity meaning that it involves cognition, that it is of or related to knowle

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