The Scientific Background of Berkeley’s Theory of Vision: Some Overlooked Berkeleian Sources
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https://doi.org/10.12775/RF.2019.056Słowa kluczowe
perspectiva, vision, distance, magnitude, Barrow’s question, Moon illusion, minima visibilia and tangibilia, Molyneux’s question, divine language, retinal imagesAbstrakt
This essay offers a wide historical overview of the various, composite and sometimes unexpected sources of Berkeley’s theory of vision. It offers a commentary of the main questions faced in Berkeley’s NTV, highlights the authentic and genuine scientific character of Berkeley’s theory of vision, and shows some important links among optics, metaphysics and theology in Berkeley’s thought.
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