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2012 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Kantianism at the Nano-scale
verfasst von : Michael Dickson
Erschienen in: Modeling Nanoscale Imaging in Electron Microscopy
Verlag: Springer US
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Abstract
The smallest object that the human eye can detect has dimensions of around 50 microns. So there is a sense in which a sphere that is, say, 10 microns in diameter, is invisible to us. Some philosophers have argued that the invisibility, to us, of a 10 microns sphere has epistemological significance that, in particular, our knowledge about and our understanding of such things may be qualitatively different from our knowledge and understanding of directly observable objects. Along with many other philosophers, I find this view untenable. It seems clear that although they are not directly observable to us, 10 microns spheres are nonetheless the same sort of thing as their larger cousins (the 50 microns spheres). Indeed, there are creatures whose visual apparatus works more or less as ours does that can directly see 10 microns spheres.