Naïve Realism and the Laws of Appearance

The Laws of Appearance are ostensively necessary constraints on the contents of perceptual experiences. As such, they put pressure on the various available accounts of such experiences. The growing consensus is that none of those accounts can explain the Laws in their apparent modal force, so the latter must get explained away. This paper delivers a different verdict: the Laws can get derived in their full apparent modal force once the explanatory potential of a conservative variety of naïve realism, and of its correlative accounts of hallucination and illusion, get recognised.