Een mooi citaat, over het grote wonder dat "waarneming" heet, en het zintuig zicht in het bijzonder:
"If I look up from the writing of this sentence, my view immediately takes in half a room containing scores if not hundreds of multicoloured items and shapes in higgledy-piggledy relationships with one another. I see it all clearly and distinctly, instantly and effortlessly. There is no conceivable form of words into which this simple, unitary act of vision can be put... Even something as simple and everyday as the sight of a towel dropped on to a bathroom floor is inaccessible to language. - and inaccessible to it from many points of view at the same time: no words to describe the shape it has fallen into, no words to describe the degrees of shading in its colours, no words to describe the differentials of shadow in its folds, no words to describe its spatial relationships to all the other objects in the bathroom. I see all these things at once with great precision and definiteness, with clarity and certainty, and in all their complexity, and yet I would be totally unable, as would anyone else, to put that experience into words.”
- Brian Magee, Confessions of a Philosopher, 1997
Kenshin.
"If I look up from the writing of this sentence, my view immediately takes in half a room containing scores if not hundreds of multicoloured items and shapes in higgledy-piggledy relationships with one another. I see it all clearly and distinctly, instantly and effortlessly. There is no conceivable form of words into which this simple, unitary act of vision can be put... Even something as simple and everyday as the sight of a towel dropped on to a bathroom floor is inaccessible to language. - and inaccessible to it from many points of view at the same time: no words to describe the shape it has fallen into, no words to describe the degrees of shading in its colours, no words to describe the differentials of shadow in its folds, no words to describe its spatial relationships to all the other objects in the bathroom. I see all these things at once with great precision and definiteness, with clarity and certainty, and in all their complexity, and yet I would be totally unable, as would anyone else, to put that experience into words.”
- Brian Magee, Confessions of a Philosopher, 1997
Kenshin.
