A cylinder looks like a circle or a square, but it is neither a circle nor a square
https://gyazo.com/e249b88f436ff3bf9d15d99579239ae5
The cylinder appears to be suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc. from some directions, and rectangle from other directions.
This is correct.
It looks rectangular." This is also correct.
It is a circle." That is not correct.
It's a rectangle." That's not correct either.
I don't know if humans can observe "it is a cylinder."
We may only observe shadows. Cave metaphor - Wikipedia # even if
Plato Idea
relevance
pointed circle
point of view Perspective
All data is a lie
All models are wrong.
Interpreting the same entity from different perspectives
orthographical variants
That observation is true, but not the truth.
Influenced by the word [observed fact
That fact is not true.
Short
It is an observation of the same phenomenon from different perspectives.
6 and 9
It's not a circle or a square.
HISTORY
Started with this image on 2017-06-17
I'd like to state the source of this image, but it came to me via Twitter, so I'm not sure.
https://gyazo.com/c00a3d3ab514193d7c4b4bebb87f5c16
After a while, I changed the title.
OLD TITLE: That perception is correct but not true
new title: A cylinder looks like a circle or a square, but it is neither a circle nor a square
2022-07-07
I painted my own picture to better convey what I wanted to say.
A series of pictures of two people saying different things.
blind spot card 17
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