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Polymodality is the embodied sum of the variously structured ways of sensuous access to the world--perceptual imagination provides the translation necessary for perception's coherence. We need some measure of polymodality to prove a perceptual object's existence. However, polymodality does little to specify its phenomenal nature. Phenomenality, but not perception, by definition is restricted to a single sense's access, unimodality. Cf. secondary qualities, response dependence. (II:3; VIII:2-3).

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