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And what would be the standard of veridicality for a perception as of something as red? Red, as we have come to understand it, is complicated. Red has to do with the spectral characteristics of illuminants and their intensities, as well as surface reflectances over an area often larger than the area seen as red. The best way I can think of to test the veridicality of my perception of something as red is to ask around to see if I can find a consensus. Who knows? It might be a green orange under peculiar conditions of illumination. The other way is just to act as if the perception is veridical, actionable, reliable until proven otherwise or until it doesnt matter any more.
The point of intensionality (with the s) is that apparently evolution hasnt come up with a way to infer much in depth about distal reality on the basis of woefully underdetermined proximal stimulation. But opaque references are more actionable than no references. Its a wonder evolution has eventuated in as much as it has.
So, we have an unbewusster Schluss mechanism to get opaque specifications of what is out there, and on top of that we somehow acquired a separate mechanism of bewusster Schluss to discover that Hesperus and Phosphorus are the same heavenly body and to believe experts who tell us so.