Oar in Water

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Duration: 14

Written in: 2003

Category: Chamber

oar in water – favourite example of how circumstance can affect the perception of an object, and make it seem other than it is.
‘The same object, seems to us bent or straight, according to whether we see it in or out of water.’ (Plato, Republic X. 602c)

– The Oxford Companion to Philosophy © Oxford University Press, 1995