POLS 1402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Blackboard, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke
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I have always thought my view of the world was how everyone saw it. I didn"t know having trouble seeing the blackboard was atypical. I remember, while visiting the doctors office, i tried my best to read the letters on the chart but all -- except the four enormous letters at the top -- was a blur. When she asked me to read it, i stood completely shocked. It was not a superhuman, but an average person with 20/20 vision, that could read that board without a problem. When i got my glasses, i saw the world as perfectly as every other ordinary person with. Or at least that is what i believed. It was not until later that i discovered. I would never be able to see the world as clearly as others had seen their own -- with or without my enhanced view.
