  When J.M. Hinton first introduced discussion of the disjunctive view of experience his primary concern was to identify and undermine what he took to be a substantive assumption in much philosophical theorising about perception. His target was the assumption that veridical perception and subjectively indistinguishible hallucination have the same intrinsic nature. In particular, his target was the assumption that the fact that a hallucination can be subjectively indistinguishible from a veridical perception is to be explained by the thesis that these experiences share a common nature that is manifest to one when has the experiences. Hinton does not try to prove directly that this ‘common element’ assumption is false. Instead, he tries to argue that it is unwarranted, and that his alternative, disjunctivist approach to perceptual experience should be our default view. M.G.F. Martin has also argued that the disjunctive account of experience should be our default view. Martin’s argument to this effect is discussed in section 3.3. This section focuses on Hinton’s version of the argument.