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| ISBN: | 9780191968044 No price
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| Notes: | Also issued in print: 2024.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 5, 2024).
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| Summary: | 'Perceptual Content' discusses and compares the representational characters of all the traditional 'five senses'. It has three main topics or concerns. (1) The diversity of the senses: though Lycan maintains as a working assumption that all perception represents, the similarity between sense modalities ends there. The senses' respective representational modes, styles and structures - not just their mechanisms - differ very strongly from each other. (2) The Layering thesis: Lycan argues that a single sensory representation usually has more than one content, the contents systematically related to each other by a priority or dependence relation. More specifically, a perceptual state may represent one object or property by representing a more primitive or less ambitious one; he calls this the 'layering' of content.
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| Target Audience: | Specialized.
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| Other form: | Print version : 9780192871817
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| Standard no.: | 10.1093/9780191968044.001.0001
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