Belief-like imaginings and perceptual (non-)assertoricity

The goal of this paper is to show that certain perceptual experiences are non-assertoric due to penetration by attitudinal, belief-like imaginings. After surveying common interpretations of perceptual assertoricity and implications of these readings, we adduce cases of non-assertoric perceptual experience. We argue that in such cases, perceptual experience is non-assertoric due to penetration by belief-like imaginings. We then explain that because imaginings are, in a crucial sense, not directed at the real world, the experiences they penetrate are rendered non-assertoric.