- Published Online:
- 2014-01-07
- Published in Print:
- 2014-04-01
- Citation Information:
- Metaphysica, Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 1–23, eISSN 1874-6373, ISSN 1437-2053, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2014-0001.
It is often argued that for a perceptual experience to be able to justify perceptual judgments, the perceptual experience must have a propositional content. For, it is claimed, only propositions can bear logical relations such as implication to each other. In this paper, this claim is challenged. It is argued that whereas perceptions and judgments both have intentional content, their contents have different structures. Perceptual content does not have a propositional structure. Perceptions and judgments can nevertheless have the same cognitive significance. So the veridicality of a certain perceptual experience, can imply the truth of certain propositions. Consequently, perceptions can have non-propositional content, but even so justify perceptual judgments which have a propositional structure.
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