A remark on “ideas and vision” in the previous post suggests . . .
A search for Fodor in this journal yields his parody of Wittgenstein . . .
- A man might have this picture of what seeing is:
there is the seer and there is the thing seen .
The one sees the other. A typical philosophical theory. - We wish to ask: what are we supposed to do with this picture?
- A man might say: ‘I can’t see a thing’ and ‘I can’t see a thing
but the fog.’ Both might be true. - ‘I can’t see a thing in this fog.’ Which thing?