bryankam,
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"Conceit is epilepsy and eyesight is a lying sense."
(dubious) fragment 46

"All humans by nature desire to know. An indication of this is our liking for the perceptual capacities. For even apart from their utility, these are liked because of themselves — and most of all the one because of the eyes."
, (dubious) , 980a21

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A tiktok video in which I talk about a quote from Heraclitus, "Eyesight is a lying sense"

bodhidave,
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Lots of examples in sensory psych about ways our visual system exaggerates and distorts what the eyes register.

But I am especially fond of the implications of reflections on cross-species differences in sensoria...

bodhidave,
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@bryankam @philosophy

I'm also reminded of a favorite, um, spelling:

In Middle English, as often as not, "conceit" was how you spelled the word "concept." :)

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