ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the perception and projection dichotomy and its foundational presupposition. It discusses Wittgenstein's distinction between two uses of the word "see" and its special significance for aesthetic perception. The chapter deals with odd but as interestingly instructive-asymmetry that resides within verbal usage. Words, in truth, are inseparable from the representational experiences both Wittgenstein and Wollheim are investigating. Those experiences take place in and among, and not prior to, our life in language. One could express the matter in terms of a final reunification after an initial bifurcation: for Wollheim, Wittgenstein's two uses of "see" in the end with the mind and the eyes both fully engaged in front of a painting re-converge in a unitary yet twofold act of perception. In closing, there remains one final observation to be made about the ubiquitous presence of seeing-in and its central facilitation of the interactions between visual and verbal meaning.
