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There Is More to Seeing Than Meets the Eye

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In this and subsequent chapters we will consider a cluster of concepts having to do with observation. Notions like seeing, witnessing, noticing, attending, evidence, data, facts … will be inspected, sometimes at close range, sometimes from far off.

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    (Paraphrase by Hanson) See Walter [1953] 1963, ch. 7. – WCH.

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  1. Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USA

    Matthew D. Lund

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Lund, M.D. (2018). There Is More to Seeing Than Meets the Eye. In: Lund, M.D. (eds) Perception and Discovery. Synthese Library, vol 389. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69745-1_4

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