Abstract
This paper takes as inspiration two central themes of Markus Gabriel’s work. The first is a radically permissive attitude to existence, on which fictional, economic, social, and aesthetic objects all exist relative to a “field of sense.” The second is a broad resistance to psychologism. On Gabriel’s view, objects are constituted by the ways in which they appear in a field, where these ways of appearing are wholly objective or “ways things are in themselves.” In this paper, I develop a view of sensible appearances as objective, yet qualitatively imbued properties that objects possess independent of being perceived. I then argue for a naïve realist account of sensory experience on which perceivers stand in a “diaphanous” two-place relation of awareness to these appearance qualities.