# SPACE, TIME AND MOLYNEUX’S QUESTION **Abstract:** Whatever the answer to Molyneux’s question is, it is certainly not obvious that the answer is ‘yes’. In contrast, it seems clear that we should answer affirmatively a temporal variation on Molyneux’s question, introduced by Gareth Evans. I offer a phenomenological explanation of this asymmetry in our responses to the two questions. This explanation appeals to the modality-specific spatial structure of perceptual experience and its amodal temporal structure. On this explanation, there are differences in the perception of spatial properties in different modalities, but these differences do not stand in the way of the objectivity of perceptual experience. It has seemed obvious to many that perceptual experiences are transparent: when we turn our attention to them, it ‘passes through’ to the mind-independent objects and properties that we perceive. But it is equally obvious that in so doing we find those objects and properties presented to us in certain ways: seeing a lemon and the shape of the lemon is phenomenally unlike perceiving those things by touch, for instance. Here, I explore one respect in which this is the case. Though it may be that the only things to which we can directly attend, in reflecting on our perceptual experiences, are the lemons, tables and suchlike that we perceive, in thus attending we become aware of the sense-specific structure or form of our perceptual experiences of those objects and their properties. Furthermore, I will argue that whilst the spatial **Authors:** [[Louise Richardson]]