A cylinder looks like a circle or a square, but it is neither a circle nor a square

• The cylinder appears to be suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc. from some directions, and rectangle from other directions. This is correct. It looks rectangular.” This is also correct. It is a circle.” That is not correct. It’s a rectangle.” That’s not correct either.

I don’t know if humans can observe “it is a cylinder.”

• We may only observe shadows. Cave metaphor - Wikipedia # even if
  • Plato Idea

relevance - pointed circle - point of view Perspective - All data is a lie - All models are wrong. - Interpreting the same entity from different perspectives

orthographical variants - That observation is true, but not the truth. - Influenced by the word [observed fact - That fact is not true. - Short

• It is an observation of the same phenomenon from different perspectives. - 6 and 9 - It’s not a circle or a square.

HISTORY Started with this image on 2017-06-17

• I’d like to state the source of this image, but it came to me via Twitter, so I’m not sure.

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• After a while, I changed the title.

  • OLD TITLE: That perception is correct but not true
  • new title: A cylinder looks like a circle or a square, but it is neither a circle nor a square

• 2022-07-07

  • I painted my own picture to better convey what I wanted to say.
    • A series of pictures of two people saying different things.

• blind spot card 17

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