ABSTRACT

This chapter gives some kind of survey of the various contexts in which Wittgenstein discusses the phenomenon of 'seeing as'. It points at the role of the perceiving subject, and at the perceived object. Within this rough separation, the chapter looks at various types of drawings involved and the various concepts Wittgenstein discusses in those contexts. This is also a very good case of what Wittgenstein meant by the concept of internal relations in the Tractatus. The case of seeing aspects seems that, at least for particular kinds of drawings, the aspects must somehow already be contained in the picture. The various contexts and examples Wittgenstein introduces, it also becomes obvious that the seeing experience depends upon both the perceiving subject and the object perceived. However, as already mentioned in the context of 'permanent aspect seeing', this does not mean that every seeing is to be understood as a seeing as, which Wittgenstein points out in various passages.