Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle on Sense Perception Contributor(s): Towey, A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1780938853 ISBN-13: 9781780938851 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $51.43 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical - Literary Collections | Essays - Philosophy | Epistemology |
Dewey: 121.35 |
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.75 lbs) 240 pages |
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Publisher Description: In his work On Sense Perception, Aristotle discusses the material conditions of perception, starting with the sense organs and moving to the material basis of colour, flavour and odour. His Pythagorean account of hues as a ratio of dark to light was enthusiastically endorsed by Goethe against Newton as being true to the painter's experience. Aristotle finishes with three problems about continuity. First, in what sense are indefinitely small colour patches or colour variations perceptible? Secondly, which perceptible leap discontinuously like light to fill a whole space, which have to reach one point before another; and do observers of the latter perceive the same thing if they are at different distances? Thirdly, how does the central sense permit genuinely simultaneous, rather than staggered, perception of different objects? |