TY - JOUR
T1 - Perceptual indiscriminability : in defence of Wright's proof
AU - DE CLERCQ, Rafael
AU - HORSTEN, Leon
PY - 2004/7/1
Y1 - 2004/7/1
N2 - A series of unnoticeably small changes in an observable property may add up to a noticeable change. Crispin Wright has used this fact to prove that perceptual indiscriminability is a non-transitive relation. Delia Graff has recently argued that there is a 'tension' between Wright's assumptions. But Graff has misunderstood one of these, that 'phenomenal continua' are possible; and the other, that our powers of discrimination are finite, is sound. If the first assumption is properly understood, it is not in tension with but is actually implied by the second, given a plausible physical assumption.
AB - A series of unnoticeably small changes in an observable property may add up to a noticeable change. Crispin Wright has used this fact to prove that perceptual indiscriminability is a non-transitive relation. Delia Graff has recently argued that there is a 'tension' between Wright's assumptions. But Graff has misunderstood one of these, that 'phenomenal continua' are possible; and the other, that our powers of discrimination are finite, is sound. If the first assumption is properly understood, it is not in tension with but is actually implied by the second, given a plausible physical assumption.
UR - http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon_Horsten/publication/230536058_Perceptual_Indiscriminability_In_Defence_of_Wright's_Proof/links/0f317533e4a41d3726000000.pdf
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/1879
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=48349107468&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.0031-8094.2004.00364.x
DO - 10.1111/j.0031-8094.2004.00364.x
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 0031-8094
VL - 54
SP - 439
EP - 444
JO - The Philosophical Quarterly
JF - The Philosophical Quarterly
IS - 216
ER -