CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Fei, Yufeng |
|---|---|
| Title | How the Laws of Appearance Lie? A Preliminary Study into the Notion of the Laws of Appearance |
| Summary | In this work, I analyse the notion of “Laws of Appearance” as raised by Adam Pautz (2017; 2020). Specifically, I discuss two of these “laws”: The “No Logical Structure” law – that we cannot have the representational content of an experience in disjunctive form; and the “Exclusion Law” – that a surface cannot be both red and green simultaneously. Towards the former, I endeavoured to show that the first “law” is the result of mistaking the phenomenological sense and the epistemic sense of the embedded proposition in propositional attitudes employed to characterised experience; towards the latter, I endeavoured to provide an illustration of Wittgenstein’s answers to colour exclusion, with the theme of his answers being that the proposition “A is both red and green” is a logical impossibility, not a phenomenological one. Together, I hope that they show “Laws of Appearance” are really separate questions that require separate answers, and it is not the task of a theory of perception to provide an explanation of all of them as a whole. |
| Supervisor | Robinson, Howard |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/fei_yufeng.pdf |
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