Seeing and Seeing As

  • Godfrey Vesey

Abstract

On looking at a thing sometimes we say, ‘It’s a torpedo, a lemon, an inkblot, solid, bent, green, and so on’, and sometimes we say, ‘It looks like a torpedo, like a lemon, like an inkblot, solid, bent, green, and so on’. Sometimes we say of a person that he saw a torpedo, a lemon, an inkblot, and sometimes we say that he saw something as a torpedo, a lemon, an inkblot.

Keywords

Material World Material Thing Reversible Figure Intellectual Power Determinate Quality 
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Notes and References

  1. 1.
    G. Dawes Hicks, ‘Is There “Knowledge by Acquaintance”?’, Arist. Soc. Supp., vol. II, (1919).Google Scholar
  2. 2.
    A. C. Ewing, Fundamental Questions of Philosophy (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951) pp. 68–9.Google Scholar
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    T. Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, abridged by H. D. Woozley (ed.) (London: Macmillan, 1941) p. 145.Google Scholar
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    J. A. V. Butler, ‘Pictures in the Mind’, Science News, 22 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1951).Google Scholar
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    A. E. Murphy, ‘Moore’s “Defence of Common Sense”, in The Philosophy of G. E. Moore, ed. P. A. Schilpp (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University, 1942) p. 312.Google Scholar

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© Godfrey Norman Agmondisham Vesey 1991

Authors and Affiliations

  • Godfrey Vesey
    • 1
  1. 1.The Open UniversityUK

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