Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Duck-rabbit

In Philosophical Investigations (1953), Ludwig Wittgenstein takes up the figure of the duck-rabbit to discuss questions of perception and “seeing as.”

Sitting at my kitchen table yesterday afternoon, I saw this chip-clip as a duck-rabbit.

comments: 2

macon d said...

Yep, sure enough!

So, is that like, a second level of "seeing as"?

Michael Leddy said...

I’m afraid so.