Inspecting Images
@article{Smythies1983InspectingI,
title={Inspecting Images},
author={John Raymond Smythies},
journal={Philosophy},
year={1983},
volume={58},
pages={57 - 72}
}The inspectability of after-images has been denied. A typical claim is Ilham Dilman's: ‘I cannot say my apprehension of the after-image I see has changed but not the after-image itself’, for, he says, appearance and reality are one as regards the after-image. His reason is that this is a logical consequence of the fact that other people have no possible basis for correcting what I say about the after-image I see.
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