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“Because we are all human and there by share a
neurological apparatus of vision which we can take, save for cases of obvious malfunction, as behaving in the same way for everyone, there seems no reason to doubt that what a painter understands by, say, a hand
is exactly what everyone understands by it. Yet how can we be sure that visual experience is universally similar? What guarantees the guarantee?”
― Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze
neurological apparatus of vision which we can take, save for cases of obvious malfunction, as behaving in the same way for everyone, there seems no reason to doubt that what a painter understands by, say, a hand
is exactly what everyone understands by it. Yet how can we be sure that visual experience is universally similar? What guarantees the guarantee?”
― Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze
