Naive realism, blur, and seeing something new

Subjects with differing degrees of visual acuity can view the same scene from the same perspective but still have strikingly different experiences: one clear, one blurry. The existence of such contrasts and the distinctive phenomenal character of seeing blurrily pose significant challenges for naive realist theories of perceptual experience. Several recent naive realist accounts of blurry experience are premised on the idea that the subject of the blurry experience is simply acquainted with fewer of the properties actually present in the scene than the subject of the corresponding clear experience. I argue that such accounts fail to accommodate cases of blurry experience where something new is seen, i.e. where a property apparently present in the blurry experience is absent in the clear experience.