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If you lift your eyes from this book, what is revealed to you is a spread-out world of objects of many shapes, colors and kinds. Perhaps what you see are the familiar furnishings of your room, and if you look out a window you may see houses and trees, or a distant panorama of hills and fields. In fact, the word panorama is very apt: The root of the word is orama, the Greek word for what is seen with the eyes, and the prefix is pan, as in pantheism, meaning all. What you behold is a comprehensive display of the things before you, and this display is given to you as a single, undivided experience.
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Pinter, C. (2021). The Visual World. In: Mind and the Cosmic Order. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50083-2_2
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