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Vision-centrality and the reflexive-identity of external object

  • ZHAI Zhenming
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  • School of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

Published date: 05 Mar 2008

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2014 Higher Education Press and Brill

Abstract

The correspondence of a sensory object to the category of a descriptive statement requires a reflexive-identity of the object, and such a reflexive-identity is primarily based on the cognition of spatiality. Spatiality is, however, constituted through visual perception. There are only two occasions on which definitive reflexive-identity is exemplified: the infinitesimal point and the infinite “One,” and others are just human stipulations that meet pragmatic needs of rough identification of things at hand. However, if a spatial point is not different from any so-called “other” spatial point, to validate the reflexive identity of any spatial point implies a validation of the reflexive identity of all spatial points. Thus, as “one” and “many” here become absolutely unitary, the infinitely small and the infinitely immense are identical.

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ZHAI Zhenming . Vision-centrality and the reflexive-identity of external object[J]. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2008 , 3(1) : 55 -66 . DOI: 10.1007/s11466-008-0004-z

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