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Wittgenstein's famous duck-rabbit illusion explains the concept of ‘aspect perception’. Even for the same object, depending on the observer’s conceptual and experiential framework, ‘seen-as’ changes as a duck or a rabbit, and we always immediately recognize the object ‘seeing as’ rather than as itself. Wittgenstein points out that the moment of realizing this perceptual shift is rare, and some people may be ‘aspect blind’ and not be able to see the other aspect at all. Ultimately, this reminds us of how fluid the way we understand the world is at times "We remember see the rabbit when we see the duck, but we cannot experience both at the same time." — E. Gombrich “The idiot never notices that everything has two sides.” — Ernst Bloch, The Dialectical Method. JHieronymus Rodler’s version of Alberti’s Veil, 1531. MThe real question is : to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong? To those who can apply it to their own lives, or to a cultural hierarchy of relic special

Wittgenstein as Designer | Dragonfly-Eye 1991 Library Image-Bank Info K → 1 2 Wittgenstein as Designer Otl Aicher • 1991 A Otl Aicher, Analogous and Digital, 1981, p. 87 – 92 [abridged] PDF — 1.02 MiB A Otl Aicher, Analogous and Digital, 1981, p. 87 – 92 [abridged] PDF — 1.02 MiB Figures from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus , 1914 F See “ The turning of head to toe ” w/ Marx & Hegel. H Duck-Rabbit Wittgenstein's famous duck-rabbit illusion explains the concept of ‘aspect perception’. Even for the same object, depending on the observer’s conceptual and experiential framework, ‘seen-as’ changes a

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