De-eclipsing Common Sense: Why We See Near rather than Far in Roy Sorensen’s Eclipse Riddle
According to Roy Sorensen, when one looks at the Moon, during a solar eclipse, what she sees is its inner (concave) part of the farther, reflective one, and not the always-facing-Earth side of our natural satellite. To make his point clearer, he put forward the famous example of a double eclipse inv...
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Society for the Advancement of Philosophy
2017-01-01
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Series: | Prolegomena |
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Online Access: | http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/276518 |