Democritus argued that if seeing is dependent on our psychological and physiological condition, there are no colours in things, since colours exist by virtue of our faculties of perception. The Kanizsa triangle supports his argument. There is no triangle overlapping the entire image, but it appears to us that there is one. So the existence …
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What is?
‘What is’ is a question that may be re-phrased as ‘what is there?’ But we may equally ask the question, what is ‘is’? It is the second question that I will address in this article. ‘Is’ can be described in terms of three associations. ‘is’ is associated with being, with identity, and with existence. I …
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