For a blind person, isn't seeing a color for the first time through an exo-organic sensory apparatus a 'new world'? Isn't the squid an alien that already has been put into new non-human lights via our new organs? I realize my argument is ill-equiped but i guess you get my drift.
To be honest the problem is not metrology, it is a subset of a much larger problem, the so-called metaphors of levels. Check Carl Craver's essay Levels for a good introduction.
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Merci.
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As early as the mid-90s some mereologistz began to see the cracks (varzi and cassetti for example). It's just they were working in a very traditional framework and they were unaware of broader logical and epistemological problems.
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