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Monocular   Listen
adjective
Monocular  adj.  
1.
Having only one eye; with one eye only; as, monocular vision.
2.
Adapted to be used with only one eye at a time; as, a monocular microscope.






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"Monocular" Quotes from Famous Books



... recommended to the young philosopher than the teachings of Messrs. Russell and Moore, if he wishes to be a moralist and a logician, and not merely to seem one. Yet this salutary doctrine, though correct, is inadequate. It is a monocular philosophy, seeing outlines clear, but missing the solid bulk and perspective of things. We need binocular vision to quicken the whole mind and yield a full image of reality. Ethics should be controlled by a physics that perceives the material ground and the relative status of whatever is moral. ...
— Winds Of Doctrine - Studies in Contemporary Opinion • George Santayana

... objects upon one plane, which demands a great effort of abstraction on the part of the observer. European perspective, built up in the fifteenth century upon the remains of the geometric knowledge of the Greeks, is based on the monocular theory used by the latter. In this system, it is assumed that the picture is viewed with the eye fixed on a single point. Therefore the conditions of foreshortening—or distorting the actual dimensions according to the angle from which they are seen—are governed by ...
— Chinese Painters - A Critical Study • Raphael Petrucci



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