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Citation

Millar A (2024) Recognitional Abilities and Knowing What One Sees. In: Giananti A, Roessler J & Soldati G (eds.) Perceptual Knowledge and Self-Awareness. Oxford: Oxford University PressOxford, pp. 54-72. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191965210.003.0005

Abstract
Perceptual-recognitional abilities are abilities to recognize things that are some way as being that way from the way they appear to some sense modality. They abilities have a key role in accounting for perceptual knowledge. Under the conception adopted, general abilities are exercised only in doing the thing that the ability is an ability to do. Accordingly, recognitional abilities are exercised only in recognizing a thing as being some way, and in that way coming to know that it is that way. A contrasting picture is considered and rejected. Particular kinds of self-knowledge are then explored—our knowledge as to what one sees or sees to be thus and so. These kinds of self-knowledge are crucial for understanding how visual perception yields justified beliefs. They are explicated in terms of the exercise of abilities knowledgeably to apply certain relational concepts in first-person, non-inferential applications to visually perceived things and oneself.

Keywords
Perception; perceptual knowledge; perceptual experience; self-awareness; self-knowledge; first-person perspective; perceptual belief; appearance; reason; capacities