Senses are not subjective channels but objective rules of worldly revelation.

Evidence

A sense is not given before sensible objects. For is it not capable indeed of appearing as an object to the Other? Neither is it given after sensible objects; for in that case it would be necessary to suppose a world of incommunicable images, simple copies of reality the mechanism of whose appearance was inconceivable. The senses are contemporaneous with objects; they are things “in person” as they are revealed to us in perspective. They represent simply an objective rule of this revelation. Thus sight does not produce visual sensations; neither is it affected by light rays. It is the collection of all visible objects in so far as their objective and reciprocal relations all refer to certain chosen sizes—submitted to all at once—as measures, and to a certain center of perspective. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 856

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is a crucial definitional move: the sense-organ is not a subjective conduit but the objective mode of presentation of things themselves.
• XREF: Connects to phenomenology of perception; this is Sartre reversing the empiricist/atomist account of sensation — relevant to how Beauvoir inherits the body-as-situation theme. — connects to: So-called sensory relativity is really objective contradiction resolved by free choice.; Even visual anomalies are objective relations between world-objects, not subjective modifications.; Even the senses have a history, so secular worldliness is not brute sense-truth — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 944 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Rules of perceptual appearance are objective, not subjective-psychological in origin #corroborates (0.95)
• Perceived qualities exist objectively as the thing itself, not as subjective effects #corroborates (0.88) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 594
• Even in experiments, perception is world-directed, not inner-sensation centered. #corroborates (0.82)
• Even the senses have a history, so secular worldliness is not brute sense-truth #qualifies (0.80) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 944
• Senses themselves have a history and differ across lifeworlds. #qualifies (0.75)