ABSTRACT
One fragment of Xenophanes of Colophon (DK38) famously related the sweetness caused by figs to the sweetness of honey: men would find figs much sweeter if they had not tasted honey. Manuel Curado considers that Xenophanes’s old reflection (dated c. 530 BCE) never came to its full development. According to the line of thought that he unfolds, it is necessary to explore the way in which the founding intuition of Xenophanes allows clarification of the totality of the content of perceptual experience. Therefore, he advances a set of arguments in order to sustain the theoretical case that holds that all perceptual content is relational. In addition, other accessory problems are addressed, namely, the status of the category of relation in comparison with the category of substance, and the way in which the relational nature of the perceptual content could illuminate the relation between perception and other mental modalities. In conclusion, he defends the theoretical case that one should adopt a new theoretical framework to study perception.
