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G. E. M. Anscombe (2)* tells of a man out shooting who misperceived his father as a stag, with fatal consequences. What the huntsman was looking at was, in fact, his father; but his father looked to him like a stag, and, thinking that he was shooting a stag, the huntsman shot his father.
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© 1971 G. N. A. Vesey
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Vesey, G. (1971). The Epistemic Appearance. In: Perception. Problems of Philosophy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01004-2_1
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