Abstract

For Aristotle our only means for perceiving the world are the five senses, each individuated by the type of perceptible qualities it is sensitive to: colors for sight, sounds for hearing, etc. Do we perceive only one perceptible quality at a time? Are perceptual qualities given individually, separately in perception, even if contemporaneously? If this were the case, we would not perceive objects, or discriminate and compare their qualities. But we do perceive objects and discriminate and compare their qualities. How is it that we can become aware of perceptual content that does not consist of isolated perceptible qualities at a time? How do we achieve _complex_ perceptual content?