Wahrnehmung

The chapter divides into five sections. The first deals with the notion of sense-perception as judgement and with the way it was formulated against theories insisting on the imprinting character of sense-perception. The second is about the individual senses with an emphasis on sight, conceived of as the paradigmatic sense. The third is about the notion of the unity of sense-perception. It stresses that it was developed within the context of the critique on theories maintaining the bodily character of the perceptual process. The fourth offers an overview about the representational capacity. The fifth is about the content of sense-perception, examining the role of inborn concepts in formulating perceptual content.