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The Formulation of Disjunctivism: A Response to Fish.

Authors :
Snowden, Paul
Source :
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Paperback); Jan2005, Vol. 105 Issue 1, p129-141, 13p
Publication Year :
2005

Abstract

Fish proposes that we need to elucidate what‘disjunctivism’ stands for, and he also proposes that it stands for the rejection of a principle about the nature of experience that he calls the decisiveness principle. The present paper argues that his first proposal is reasonable, but then argues, in Section II, that his positive suggestion does not draw the line between disjunctivism and non-disjunctivism in the right place. In Section III, it is argued that disjunctivism is a thesis about the special nature of perceptual experience, and the thesis as elucidated here is then distinguished from and related to certain other ideas about perception, namely, direct realism and also McDowell's epistemological disjunctivism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00667374
Volume :
105
Issue :
1
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Paperback)
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
14762968
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0066-7373.2004.00106.x