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What does feeling a sharp pain in one's hand have in common with seeing a red apple on
the table? Some say not much, apart from the fact that they are both conscious experiences.
To see an object is to perceive an extramental reality-in this case, a red apple. To
feel a pain, by contrast, is to undergo a conscious experience that doesn't necessarily
relate the subject to an objective reality. Perceptualists, however, dispute this. They
say that both experiences are forms of perception of an objective reality. Feeling a pain
in one's hand, according to this view, is perceiving an objective (physical) condition of
one's hand. Who is closer to truth?
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