This analysis examines how perceptual experiences relate to objects enduring, suggesting the implications for our understanding of perception.
It is often suggested that we have experiences as of objects enduring. If this is a claim about perceptual experience, it is unclear how it could be true. It seems plausible that however objects persist, we would receive the same inputs to perception. Hence, things would seem experientially the same regardless of whether objects endure, or persist in some other manner. So, it cannot be that in any interesting sense we have experiences as of objects enduring. My aim is the modest one of articulating how, despite this, we could have perceptual experiences as of objects enduring. I then argue that even if we do, it does not give us any reason to infer, on the basis of these experiences, that objects endure.
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Kristie Miller (2025) studied this question.
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