ABSTRACT

IN the last chapter we showed how the object comes to be envisaged in terms of a particular viewpoint, and how the introduction of this viewpoint serves to transform the simple topological relationships into projective relations. We also saw that the reason perspective is slow to appear on the conceptual level, so long as perception remains dominated by egocentrism, is that the conscious awareness of the relativity of viewpoints presumes that they are distinguished one from another, and this demands an attitude just the reverse of egocentric.