 Not the fact that we report appearances, for, as Ryle reminds us, we use the locution “it appears that …” all the time without committing ourselves to having any particular experiences. “15 x 16 appears to make 220” or “It looks as if the river is twice the size of the road” commit me to no special sense-experiences. So, argues Ryle, we cannot adduce idioms of the patterns “It looks as if …” or “It appears …” as evidence of the untutored, uninferential manner in which the postulated sense-impressions are delivered to consciousness. But this leaves us with a problem.