Wodeham's theory about the untrue perception of circles suspended in mid-air
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Adam of Wodeham, Philosophy of mind, Illusions, Cognition, False beliefsAbstract
When we see a rod moving in circles, a circle appears in the air from the first person's perspective. This illusion was explained by Peter Auriole by the idea that, in such case, there is an apparent entity in our vision, which is the direct cause of such illusion. Wodeham presents a different but similar explanation to Ockham's. For him, when an agent believes that a suspended circle exists, he infers a conclusion which is "There is a circle suspended in the air." This inference is almost imperceptible to us, according to Wodeham. In this article, I reconstruct Wodeham's explanation of the process by which an agent believes that "There is a circle suspended in the air." This process is different from what Ockham proposed.
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