Philosophical Remains of George Croom Robertson
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People have lived and died without the use of eyes, but nobody has ever grown up with an insensitive skin. How can Hering, then, or Prof. James, with a perceptive consciousness of touches all-compact, say what the eye alone shall in the way of space-perception be able to accom- THE PSYCHOLOGICAL THEOEY OF EXTENSION. 287 plish ? How show that " roominess " or, for that matter, surface either which their eyes may readily be credited with beholding and in fact cannot help seeing, is an affair of m...ere ocular consciousness ? Nor, in asking such questions, is it at all implied that the eye does not give, or rather procure, us everything that is highest and most commanding in our space-perception. It is not even implied that, if we could suppose ourselves reduced to the eye with its exploratory movements as our sole and only means of constructing a spatial order, such a construction might not come to pass however far removed it would be in character from that of our actual experience. All that is meant is that, dependent as we are for all our basal experiences upon locomotive organs that are at the same time tactile, it is impossible for us through the eye to have a perception of space that is not ultimately, whatever its refinements of discrimination and consequent development of range, to be referred to the tactile base.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
People have lived and died without the use of eyes, but nobody has ever grown up with an insensitive skin. How can Hering, then, or Prof. James, with a perceptive consciousness of touches all-compact, say what the eye alone shall in the way of space-perception be able to accom- THE PSYCHOLOGICAL THEOEY OF EXTENSION. 287 plish ? How show that " roominess " or, for that matter, surface either which their eyes may readily be credited with beholding and in fact cannot help seeing, is an affair of m...ere ocular consciousness ? Nor, in asking such questions, is it at all implied that the eye does not give, or rather procure, us everything that is highest and most commanding in our space-perception. It is not even implied that, if we could suppose ourselves reduced to the eye with its exploratory movements as our sole and only means of constructing a spatial order, such a construction might not come to pass however far removed it would be in character from that of our actual experience. All that is meant is that, dependent as we are for all our basal experiences upon locomotive organs that are at the same time tactile, it is impossible for us through the eye to have a perception of space that is not ultimately, whatever its refinements of discrimination and consequent development of range, to be referred to the tactile base.
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