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Amodal completion and relationalism.

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Abstract

Amodal completion is usually characterized as the representation of those parts of the perceived object that we get no sensory stimulation from. In the case of the visual sense modality, for example, amodal completion is the representation of occluded parts of objects we see. I argue that relationalism about perception, the view that perceptual experience is constituted by the relation to the perceived object, cannot give a coherent account of amodal completion. The relationalist has two options: construe the perceptual relation as the relation to the entire perceived object or as the relation to the unoccluded parts of the perceived object. I argue that neither of these options are viable.

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Amodal completion, Perceptual phenomenology, Perceptual representation, Relationalism, Representationalism

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Philos Stud

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Journal ISSN

0031-8116
1573-0883

Volume Title

179

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Sponsorship
European Research Council (726251)
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (various)