Many years ago I worked as a lab technician. I learned to use a microscope to perform manual blood cell and other analyses. One thing I discovered quickly was that in order to see depth when viewing a specimen, I had to oscillate the distance of the microscope lens to the specimen. By essentially moving towards and then away from the specimen, I could sense the three dimensional character of the object.
This can be used as a metaphor in describing how we "see" in general and how we perceive or recognize (cognize?) form and definition. Concepts, ideas, or concrete things.
It is in the movement itself, back and forth, from one perspective to another, that we generate "perceptions".
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