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  1. Perception as a Science
  2.  
  3.     All scientific inquiry begins
  4. with perceptions. It is through
  5. our perceptions that we arrive
  6. at the facts to be explained,
  7. whether these be the orbits of
  8. planets, the colors of foliage,
  9. the reactions of chemicals, or
  10. the behavior of baboons.
  11.  
  12.     The study of perception,
  13. however, differs from other
  14. fields of scientific inquiry in
  15. certain crucial respects. In
  16. other fields of science, the goal
  17. is to separate facts from
  18. illusions and to explain the
  19. objective properties or
  20. behaviors of things. The goal of
  21. the science of perception, by
  22. contrast, is to understand the
  23. act of perception itself, to
  24. discover how and why things