There is tension between the appealing idea that visual experience puts us in touch with objective reality and the doctrine of perceptual relativity, the claim that experience varies with such factors as distance, lighting, and angle of view. In this paper I present arguments for relativity, and then go on to propose that in view of relativity, we should believe that the properties presented to us in perception are relational and viewpoint‐dependent. I conclude by sketching a theory of how we nonetheless manage to achieve contact with objective properties. According to the theory, such contact is best explained in terms of perceptual representations acting in concert with cognitive and motoric representations, not in terms of perceptual representations alone.

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外观与现实

视觉体验使我们与客观现实保持联系的吸引人的观念与感性相对论之间存在张力，主张体验因距离，光线和视角等因素而异。在本文中，我提出了相对论的论点，然后继续提出，鉴于相对论，我们应该相信在感知中呈现给我们的属性是关系和视点相关的。最后，我通过勾勒出一个理论来总结我们仍然如何实现与客观属性的联系。根据该理论，这种接触最好用与认知和运动表征协同作用的知觉表征来解释，而不是仅根据知觉表征来解释。