Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character … - Hans Reichenbach

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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

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Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in these sense qualities.

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