# Uncovering Appearances Chapter Three **Opening (not a real abstract):** Lessons from the Argument from Illusion At the outset of the last chapter, I pointed out that the common terms of debate here are that intentional properties of experience and subjective qualities are taken to be in competition in giving an account of what it is like for us to have sensory experiences. Intentional properties and subjective qualities are assumed to be exclusive of each other and to exhaust the range of options in play. We have not yet explicated why these assumptions should frame the debate. The problem here, however, is not so much that there are no evident grounds for contrasting intentional properties and subjective qualities, as that there are at least two obvious sources, and it is obscure so far which, if either, should be taken to be the more fundamental dividing point.