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In this and subsequent chapters we will consider a cluster of concepts having to do with observation. Notions like seeing, witnessing, noticing, attending, evidence, data, facts … will be inspected, sometimes at close range, sometimes from far off.
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Lund, M.D. (2018). There Is More to Seeing Than Meets the Eye. In: Lund, M.D. (eds) Perception and Discovery. Synthese Library, vol 389. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69745-1_4
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