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Although ‘seeing clearly’ is an image of grasping the truth, there is no such thing. At what level of magnification, at what level of description can you be said to have seen something clearly? Is a book seen clearly when it is seen as a whole in your hand, or when you read it, or when you take a magnifying glass to the paper and see the hills and dales of the paper, or when you go further and see the filamentous threads of which the paper is composed, or under electron microscopy, or when it finally resolves into probabilities of the presence of subatomic particles, and reveals itself to be ...more
The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
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