 In  section 1.2  on methodology, we mentioned the method of phenomenal contrast and how it is used by some in defense of the rich content view of ordinary visual perception. On this view, what is or can be presented in ordinary visual experience is not restricted to lower-level properties such as shape, color, illumination, and motion, but may include the presentation of higher-level descriptive properties including object kinds, causal relations, and actions. (Siegel’s pine tree example is often cited as an example of how the method is deployed in defense of the rich content view.) This recent development in the philosophy of perception has figured in some recent defenses of  MP.[13]