# auditory perspectives **Abstract:** paintings have a similar effect. Because of this, even though visible figures as described here are not the epistemological fundament the sense datum theorists sought, they are unavoidable and significant aspects of the perception of things in space. Many abstractions over otherwise perceptible properties exist, but only some of them are noticed. Visible figure is presumably available because perceptual systems must parse a signal coming into the eyes that varies in two dimensions across each retina into one that speaks to the facts of a 3-D world. It’s conceivable, but not quite imaginable, that a creature could perceive the intrinsic shapes of objects, as well as their orientations with respect to the creature’s standpoint, without any access to visible figure. We are not such creatures, though it would move beyond the scope of this paper to speculate as to why. As will become clear, a similar point applies to the auditory analogs of visible figures. The sense-datum skeptic has other options for explaining the apparently elliptical aspects of the coins. For example, patterns of light between the perceiver and things perceived have shapes. So, perhaps Moore is aware of the shapes of light patterns, and only thereby the coins and table. Moore sees a sight, one might say, and awareness of it, and its features lead him to awareness of the florin and the half-crown. Such object-splitting worldward of sense data carries all of the costs and none of the benefits of doing it Moore’ **Authors:** [[Kulvicki]]