Philosophy should disentangle confusions that arise out of the natural usage of the term.
An enduring example confusion:
Tendancy to approach problems in perception from a theory of knowledge.
How much do we know given our perceptions?
How does the knowledge from perceptions interact with other sources of knowledge?
This is often a confusion
(though may make sense in certain contexts, e.g. wondering if I’ve seen you before in the street)
It makes us wrongly think of the essence of perception as being in contact / direct relation with the world, as a means of getting knowledge.
This is a category error
Epistemologists are not actually dealing with perception, rather something derived from perception