# Silencing the Argument from Hallucination **Opening (not a real abstract):** Silencing the Argument from Hallucination – Istvan Aranyosi 1. INTRODUCTION The Argument possible. external objects. Very non-standard formulation:  ‘contents’ – really he means objects of perception  ‘mental images’ – sense data? But then the argument assumes their existence, rather than being used to argue for them. Also, question begging against representationalists. Aranyosi: 2 is key – it’s what disjunctivists deny (recall Macpherson on epistemic modesty) “it appears as quite intuitive, many would agree, that once we accept indistinguishability, we are entitled to conclude that there is a common nature to both veridical and hallucinatory states.” (277)