Re: Learning to see

Language abilities are fundamental in the "seeing" mechanism: the
rhetorical categories (similitude, equality, difference, nearness, smaller
than, larger than, evocation, correspondance, hierarchy, etc., etc.) and
more precisely, the metonymical rather than the metaphorical rhetorical
figures are constantly at work when "observing", but are ignored or
despised by current scientific practitioners and scientific observers.

Their formal teaching is not included in curricula, and should (could)
probably not, but the innate AND acquired mastering of observational
skills, mainly during early childhood, make the difference between a
"good" observer and... anybody else.

J.J.
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