ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the major assumption Gareth Evans makes in formulating Evans’s Question (EQ), that securing objectivity for each modality at the same times secures unity, is challengeable on phenomenological grounds. However, EQ and Evans’s reasons for expecting a positive answer to Molyneux’s Question (MQ) survive extraction from the grip of Berkeley’s binary choice claim. However, there is a prior issue to be dealt with. At least one reason Evans’s conception of the challenge raised by MQ has disappeared somewhat from view is that he himself locates EQ within a dialectic that can serve to obscure its force and independent interest. One kind of debate MQ has given rise to turns on elaborating ways in which doing justice to the phenomenology of both touch and sight is consistent with objectivity, and possibly with unity, and, possibly, with a negative answer to MQ.
