Higher-level properties are the properties that typically depend, in a generic way, on low-level properties (colors, shapes, sounds, textures …; these latter properties can be given only via a list, Helton 2016) for their instantiation. Indeed typically at least, some low-level property or other must be instantiated in order for a higher-level property to be instantiated.
Clearly enough, not all higher-level properties can be grasped perceptually. To take a paradigmatic case of non-perceivable higher-level properties, normative properties, such as institutional properties involving conventions and norms, e.g. being a curator, being a president, being a professor, cannot be so grasped. But what about the rest? In the literature on philosophy of perception, a lot of candidates…
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