V-2nd. our "field of vision"...passim, Chap 1
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 26 21:18:54 CDT 2010
Wittgenstein, a philosopher we know TRP had read, used the concept of field of vision. Simplistically, it is the world we see, all that is the case" in that oft-quoted (inclu TRP) line.--He drew meanings out of his observation that the eye IS NOT in the field of vision. It, in some way, is that field. ( He infamously also said/wrote that Solipsism was true but could not be said: that is, again simplistically fer sure, the world IS our field of vision too. See below.
* visual field: all of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* The field of view (also field of vision) is the (angular or linear or areal) extent of the observable world that is seen at any given moment.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_of_vision
* The Field of Vision is a 1956 novel by Wright Morris, written in the style of High modernism. It won the National Book Award in 1956.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Field_of_Vision
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, C. K. Ogden - 2007 - Philosophy - 116 pages
Wittgenstein uses, as an analogy, the field of vision. Our field of vision does not, for us, have a visual boundary, just because there is nothing outside ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=1602064512...
For Wittgenstein, I take it, a field of vision has no shape, and we only feel that that's strange because we are in the grip of a model of vision as inner photography. It's actually something else entirely.
Also, this spatial unlimitedness later is akin to some reflections on Time. To come.
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