 And, secondly, by rejecting the notion of ‘content’: “For the only thing that can be found as ‘content’ of the apprehending thought is the nature of the object apprehended” (SI, 75). Austin echoed this last point saying that “our senses are dumb” (Austin 1962, 11). (There is an extensive literature on this claim, see, e.g., (Travis 2004) or (Massin 2011).) The point is not that perception does not aim at an object, but merely to deny that it does so through a ‘content’ acting as intermediary: