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Seeing: In philosophy, the following questions related to seeing are interesting. The nature of perception, the relationship between perception and knowledge, the role of vision in human experience. See also Perception, Sensory impressions, Experience, Knowledge, Art, Artworks, Aesthetics, Aesthetic perception._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Pierre Duhem on Seeing - Dictionary of Arguments
I 201 Seeing/Duhem: E.g. magnifying glass: for the use is no study of the diopters necessary. You can see that the object is magnified with the magnifying glass. But when they perceive a new object through use, which they could not observe beforehand: here one must say that the object was neither created nor transformed by the lens. The results depend in no way on the diopters. >Observation, >Perception. I 202 E.g. tangent compass: We can observe a deflection around e.g. 30°. This does not require any theory, but it also does not constitute a physical experiment. The physicist does not really want to know the deflection but to measure the intensity of the current. >Measurements. _____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Duh I P. Duhem La théorie physique, son objet et sa structure, Paris 1906 German Edition: Ziel und Struktur der physikalischen Theorien Hamburg 1998 |