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matter is the way in which forms appear

Chinese translation: 物质乃显形之道

10:35 Feb 25, 2011
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Social Sciences - Philosophy
English term or phrase: matter is the way in which forms appear
Design is one of the methods of giving form to matter and making it appear as it does and not like something else. Design, like all cultural expressions, illustrated that matter does not appear (is not apparent), except in so far as one in-forms it, and that, once in-formed, it starts to appear (become a phenomenon). Thus matter in design, as everywhere in culture, is the way in which forms appear.
Vilém Flusser, Philosophy of design
RaffaellaG
Italy
Local time: 15:22
Chinese translation:物质乃显形之道
Explanation:
Matter does not exist except in the forms that we can perceive.
物质的存在惟赖于我们对于其存在形式的感知。
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Phil Hughes
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Local time: 08:22
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物质乃显形之道


Explanation:
Matter does not exist except in the forms that we can perceive.
物质的存在惟赖于我们对于其存在形式的感知。

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