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Frontiers of Philosophy in China

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Front Phil Chin    2008, Vol. 3 Issue (1) : 55-66    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11466-008-0004-z
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Vision-centrality and the reflexive-identity of external object
 ZHAI Zhenming
School of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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The correspondence of a sensory object to the category of a descriptive statement requires a reflexive-identity of the object, and such a reflexive-identity is primarily based on the cognition of spatiality. Spatiality is, however, constituted through visual perception. There are only two occasions on which definitive reflexive-identity is exemplified: the infinitesimal point and the infinite “One,” and others are just human stipulations that meet pragmatic needs of rough identification of things at hand. However, if a spatial point is not different from any so-called “other” spatial point, to validate the reflexive identity of any spatial point implies a validation of the reflexive identity of all spatial points. Thus, as “one” and “many” here become absolutely unitary, the infinitely small and the infinitely immense are identical.

Corresponding Author(s): ZHAI Zhenming,Email:hsszzm@mail.sysu.edu.cn   
Issue Date: 05 March 2008
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ZHAI Zhenming. Vision-centrality and the reflexive-identity of external object[J]. Front Phil Chin, 2008, 3(1): 55-66.
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