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The paper considers two quite authoritative but essentially different modern conceptions of perception cognition, these are the sense data theory and adverbialism. Their confrontation reflects the struggle between emerging consistent monistic views and the dualistic heritage of the past. However, both approaches are not without severe drawbacks. The sense data theory trying to conform to intuitively evident ideas of the structure of cognition processes faces a number of conceptual logical objections. Whereas, adverbialism basing on the contrary on building a consistent procedural epistemology has а great difficulty with the task to explain the phenomenal component of experience.