Inscrutability and visual objects.
The thesis that the visual system represents objects has garnered empirical support from a variety of sources in recent decades. But what kinds of things qualify as 'objects' in the relevant sense? Are they ordinary three-dimensional bodies? Are they the facing surfaces of three-dimensional bodies?...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 194; no. 8; pp. 2949 - 2972 |
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