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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.
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Vesey, G. (1991). Seeing and Seeing As. In: Inner and Outer. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21639-0_8
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