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2.8 Why Distant Objects Appear Small

As objects get further away, light concentrates down proportionate to our pupils
- things further away are more form than matter, since they appear stripped of qualities
- some other possible explanations

Is magnitude similar in size and sound?
- as objects and sounds are observed further away, size and sound both weaken

Maybe because there is more variety of forms at a further distance, the eye makes the greater volume of things appear simple to process everything

Close up, more volume of an object can be observed since there is less form and space involved

2 the explanation by lesser angle of vision as reducing appearance
- can't explain things that are bigger than we can see, like the sky
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The long paragraph before 2. almost sounded sollipsistic, but honestly I thought it was a very interesting kind of phenomenal account. We don't perceive things in 6 dimensions or 7, we process phenomena the way its relayed through SPs and their extention through science instruments. It kind of seems productive in some sense to say stuff like "the eye makes the volume more simplistic close up because there are less forms". I can't put my finger on it exactly but it sounds like the precursor of some spatial theory that isn't atomistic at its core. Or it could also be nonsense.

if i do my best to decipher kant and read thru his works will i have enough of an understanding of rationalism and empiricism to skip over most of their authors? currently reading thru kant and its a slog.

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