What Distance Must An Object Be For Its Appearance To Equal Its Real Size?
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 4:12 pm
What Distance Must An Object Be For Its Appearance To Equal Its Real Size?
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It needs to be exactly the right distance away.Enigma3 wrote:What Distance Must An Object Be For Its Appearance To Equal Its Real Size?
What if I've been led to believe I'm x feet tall, but I'm actually x inches tall? Where do I stand in size comparison to the object then? Other than that, I can usually tell by the angle I'm looking at it from. Surveyors do this all the time.Enigma3 wrote:What Distance Must An Object Be For Its Appearance To Equal Its Real Size?
Objects do not have a real size, they only have an appearance.Enigma3 wrote:What Distance Must An Object Be For Its Appearance To Equal Its Real Size?
\A_Seagull wrote:Objects do not have a real size, they only have an appearance.Enigma3 wrote:What Distance Must An Object Be For Its Appearance To Equal Its Real Size?
What implications does this have for shoe sizes, Leo.Obvious Leo wrote:\A_Seagull wrote:Objects do not have a real size, they only have an appearance.Enigma3 wrote:What Distance Must An Object Be For Its Appearance To Equal Its Real Size?
Agreed. The notion of an "object" is itself entirely subjective so it logically follows that its spatial extension must also be.
A very thoughtful question, mate. It is well known that shoe sizes in the modern world of footwear retailing are selected in an entirely arbitrary fashion by a computerised random number generator housed deep underground in an eastern bloc country which was formerly a satellite state of the Soviet empire. There can be little doubt that this transparent attempt to banjax the shoe consumer is a finely nuanced neo-Bolshevik attack on his personal liberty in an over-arching quest for world domination.Harbal wrote:What implications does this have for shoe sizes, Leo.
Some men have really small feet. All women have really small feet. Just ask a shoe salesman.Harbal wrote: What implications does this have for shoe sizes,