Perspective and spatial experience

Australasian Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming)
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Distant things look smaller, in a sense. Why? I argue that the reason is not that our experiences have a certain subject matter, or are about certain mind-independent things and features. Instead, distant things look smaller because of our way of perceiving them. I go on to offer a hypothesis about which specific way of perceiving explains why distant things look smaller.

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10.1080/00048402.2023.2277928

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