Aspects and abstracta
- Philosophers of perception and psychologists first studied 'multistable' or 'reversible' figures, 'Kippbilder', in the nineteenth century. The earliest description of the phenomenon of a 'sudden and involuntary change in the apparent position' of a represented object occurred in a letter written by Louis Albert Necker in Geneva to Sir David Brewster on 24 May 1832 and published six months later in the "Philosophical Magazine". The picture in question would become known as the Necker cube.
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| Author: | B. Madison Mount |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-530532 |
| URL: | https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-08/mount_aspects-and-abstracta.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-08_03 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-85132-734-2 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | Multistable figures : on the critical potential of ir/reversible aspect-seeing ; Cultural inquiry ; Vol. 8 |
| Publisher: | Turia + Kant |
| Place of publication: | Wien |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2020 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/03/09 |
| Tag: | Abstract algebra; Aspect-relative cognition; Homonyms; Mathematical analysis; Multistability; Multistable figures |
| GND Keyword: | Wittgenstein, Ludwig; Philosophische Untersuchungen; Inversionsfigur; Wahrnehmungswechsel; Mathematik |
| Page Number: | 26 |
| First Page: | 41 |
| Last Page: | 66 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 462156702 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen |
