The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, follows the same law: all colours are aected in the rst place, and lose their saturation. Then the spectrum is simplied, being reduced to four andsoon to two colours; nally a grey monochrome stage is reached, although the pathological colour is never identiable with any normal one. Thus in central as in peripheral lesions the loss of nervous substance results not only in a deciency of certain qualities, but in the change to a less dierentiated and more primitive structure.
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a 20th-century French phenomenological philosopher. Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interest and he wrote on perception, art, politics, religion, biology, psychology, psychoanalysis, language, nature, and history. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Art — Creativity, expression, and the role of art in society
- Philosophy — Deep thoughts on existence, knowledge, and the nature of reality