Can We See Facts?

Abstract

We have discussed at length the concepts of seeing and observing. The intellectual and linguistic character of seeing was remarked in such a way that we could at least detect some justice in the assertion that our two astronomers, the thirteenth century man and the twentieth century man, do not see the same thing in the east at dawn. In just this way two doctors may not see the same thing when looking at an x-ray photograph. Nor will two microbiologists necessarily see the same thing when looking at a protozoon, particularly if one calls it a one-celled organism and the other calls it a non-celled organism.