Abstract
In general, visual experiences represent determinately. And visual experiences, generally,
represent properties of distal objects like their colour, shape, and size, but they do not, generally,
represent properties of proximal states like that of incoming light or the retina. By making
perceptual constancies central to perceptual representation, Peter Schulte extends Karen
Neander’s Causal-Informational Teleosemantic theory in order to accommodate these facts.
However, by appealing to the psychophysics and chemistry of how light-related properties
interact to produce stimulation to the visual system and how the visual system processes such
input to produce experiences, I argue that Schulte’s theory fails to accommodate the facts of
distality and determinacy.