Perceptual unity arises from purposive traversal rather than passive observation

Evidence

It is included between two limiting terms; it unites the point of departure with the point of arrival. Since in the descent I do not consider it in itself, bit by bit, but am always fixing on a point to be reached beyond the position which I now occupy, it does not collapse into an infinity of individual details but is traversed toward the point which I assign myself. This traversal is not only an activity of movement; it is also and especially a synthetic activity of organization and connection; I spread the skiing field before me in the same way that the geometrician, according to Kant, can apprehend a straight line only by drawing one. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1359

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the earlier Kantian-geometry example and with enactivist accounts of perception as active engagement rather than passive reception. — connects to: Postmodern perception holds incompatible coordinates without unifying them — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 794; Articulated unity relates parts through differences and subordination, not identity; Images gain meaning only through each receiver’s embodied reprocessing operations (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postmodern perception holds incompatible coordinates without unifying them — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 794; Articulated unity relates parts through differences and subordination, not identity; Images gain meaning only through each receiver’s embodied reprocessing operations (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodern perception holds incompatible coordinates without unifying them #complicates (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 794
• Articulated unity relates parts through differences and subordination, not identity #expands (0.80)