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Perspective: is the arrangement of objects as it arises with respect to the perception from a geometrical localization of the perceiver within an object space. In a broader sense, taking a foreign perspective also means taking the position of another person or group in the context of a discussion. See also bat example, foreign psychological._____________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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Chr. Peacocke on Perspective - Dictionary of Arguments
I 67 Perspective/Peacocke: an explanation of perspective sensitivity (e.g. response to displacement of the food). - It should make clear the dependence of body movements on changes of the location. >Behaviour, >Explanation, >Animal language, >Animals. But: the subject never needs to move, it just needs to have the ability of re-centering of the intentional network. >Localization, >Perception, >Reference, cf. >Triangulation. I 75 Behavior / perspective / Peacocke: if an entity displays perspective behavior, it will be correlated not only with changing sensation qualities of his experience, but also with everything else, with which the sensation features are correlated - but it does not follow that he has attitudes about his retinal irritation - therefore we need to have access to other content, related to the retina irritation. >Description levels, >Levels/order, >Reflection, >Consciousness._____________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. |
Peacocke I Chr. R. Peacocke Sense and Content Oxford 1983 Peacocke II Christopher Peacocke "Truth Definitions and Actual Languges" In Truth and Meaning, G. Evans/J. McDowell, Oxford 1976 |