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As our age translates itself back into the oral and
auditory modes because of the electronic pressure of
simultaneity, we become sharply aware of the uncritical
acceptance of visual metaphors and models by many past
centuries. The linguistic analysis now followed by Gilbert Ryle at
Oxford is an unremitting critique of visual models in philosophy:
We should begin by dismissing a model which in one
form or another dominates many speculations about
perception. The beloved but spurious question, ‘How can
a person get beyond his sensations to apprehension of
external realities?’ is often posed as if the situation were
like this. There is immured in a windowless cell a prisoner,
who has lived there in solitary confinement since birth. All
that comes to him from the outside world is flickers of
light thrown upon his cell-walls and tappings heard