# High-level properties and visual experience William Fish **Opening (not a real abstract):** According to Lewis (1929), there are, in visual experiences, ‘‘two elements; the immediate data, such as those of sense, which are presented or given to the mind, and a form, construction, or interpretation, which represents the activity of thought. Recognition of this fact’’, Lewis continues, ‘‘is one of the oldest and most universal of philosophic insights’’ (Lewis 1929, p. 38). There are many interesting questions that surround the drawing of a distinction between a sensory, presentational element and an interpretative, cognitive element within visual experience. The one that I want to focus on is the following: once such a distinction is in place, how do we determine, of all of the things that we count as which to the interpretative, cognitive element? Or, to put an alternative gloss on it: **Authors:** [[William Fish]]