It All comes down to How You See It

  

It all comes down to how you and I see it, the hoary old argument goes,

and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s duck-rabbit is an example of ‘seeing as’ or aspect-perception.

We can see the duck rabbit in two different ways: the image that now looks like a duck, now looks like a rabbit. What can possibly be the difference between seeing it first one way and then the other? The image on paper, or on the retina, does not change, but Wittgenstein’s point, Logical Atomism (1921 p.137) is that there can be more than one description of that image.  While there is a difference between seeing the image as a duck and seeing it as a rabbit, that difference is captured only in the description.

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