Regarding claim (c), many critics denied that the supposed “habitual connexion” between vision and touch actually obtains. Suppose that the novice perceiver sees a remote tree at time1 and walks in its direction until she makes contact with it at time2. The problem is that the perceiver’s initial visual experience of the tree at time1 is not temporally contiguous with the locomotion-based experience of the tree’s distance completed at time2. Indeed, at time2 the former experience no longer exists. “The association required”, Abbott thus writes, 