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Full Idea
I hold that experience succeeds in representing the world objectively, since primary quality perceptual content is not contributed by the mind.
Gist of Idea
We can perceive objectively, because primary qualities are not mind-created
Source
Colin McGinn (Subjective View: sec qualities and indexicals [1983], 6)
Book Ref
McGinn,Colin: 'The Subjective View' [OUP 1983], p.107
A Reaction
My new example of a direct perception of a primary quality is acceleration in a lift. What would we say to one passenger who denied feeling the acceleration? It took an effort to see that mind contributes to secondary qualities (so make more effort?).
Related Idea
Idea 21373 We become objective when we detach ourselves from the world [Janaway]