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The triangle I have in mind is one that Donald Davidson has occasionally invoked. It has you at one vertex, some one of you. I am at another vertex, and at the third vertex there is some object. The object is reflecting light at both of us, but in somewhat different patterns owing to our difference in perspective. The light rays trigger our nerve endings, setting off one train of events in your nervous system and another in mine.
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Quine, W.V. (2000). I, You, and It: An Epistemological Triangle. In: Orenstein, A., Kotatko, P. (eds) Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 210. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3933-5_1
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