Vision
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The Denigration of Vision in 20th Century French Thought
Much of the 20th century has involved philosophers hating on how sight has been the dominant sense throughout the history of philosophy. Vision is unique among the senses because it is the only sense that allows us to behold multiple sense objects at the same time, whereas other senses are sequential. So for instance, when I behold a visual field, I can see a lot of things within that visual field, right? But with Vishan, he says, everything is given simultaneously and takes out that temporal element.
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